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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by Chris2048 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:47AM (#23212751)
> Vetting a possible maintener or fork is >0 work

Who said anything about vetting?

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by xpe on Thursday May 28, 2020 @10:58AM (#23338039)
Generally, writing ‘who said anything about X’ strikes me as unproductive for discussion. At the least, the tone could be improved.

More generally, I wonder about your underlying thought process and expectation. Were you somehow bothered when someone raised an additional related point?

The way we interact with each here other matters.

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by UncleMeat on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:28PM (#23213047)
Because people also complain when new maintainers are added and those maintainers cause problems or even abuse the project to insert malware. You can't win.
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by Chris2048 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:49PM (#23214252)
Well maybe those people don't have a valid complaint, but then that wasn't part of the original post; I was looking for a response from fovc specifically.

If the new maintainers cause problems, it's their problem, so the "you" in "you can't win" would of switched between maintainers.

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