Re:The rise of few-maintainer projects
by pdonis on Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:03PM
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> Developers are users too.
But most users are not developers, and "developer" is the relevant category here, not "user". So saying "user" is inaccurate.
> They did an act of “npm install gratis shit”, and they don’t give a shit where that code comes from. I.e. blindly trusting code from the internet.
I'm not unsympathetic to this. However, even if other developers were at fault, that doesn't mean Dominic wasn't. Not deprecating the package, and not telling anyone when he handed over the publish rights to a random person who emailed him, is still wrong even if the developers who used his package were wrong as well.
But most users are not developers, and "developer" is the relevant category here, not "user". So saying "user" is inaccurate.
> They did an act of “npm install gratis shit”, and they don’t give a shit where that code comes from. I.e. blindly trusting code from the internet.
I'm not unsympathetic to this. However, even if other developers were at fault, that doesn't mean Dominic wasn't. Not deprecating the package, and not telling anyone when he handed over the publish rights to a random person who emailed him, is still wrong even if the developers who used his package were wrong as well.