What an enlightened suggestion, thanks for that contribution. I am positive that most people have never heard this wonderful piece of advice.

You can't control what other people say to you. You can only control how you react. If obvious trolls like this upset you, then you are guaranteed to be miserable. Worse, if you publish troll emails like this and say that's why you got upset, then you are guaranteed to get many more troll emails.

I'm guessing the maintainer has some other stuff going on in his life and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I hope he overcomes whatever he's going through and winds up more resilient and more content.

Even if you agree with the sentiment of the statement, "get over it" is a shitty platitude pretending to be advice.

Is "don't feed the troll" better? This behavior is unacceptable but I'm really leaning towards the belief that sensationalizing this will only make it more likely..

This is about as big of a recognition a single troll could get in OSS with no code contributed.

>Is "don't feed the troll" better?

As advice? No... Maybe slightly? At least it is sort of actionable I guess.

I agree with most everything else you said, and it invites further conversation on whether this is exactly what the troll wanted (recognition, feeling powerful for ousting the maintainer, etc.).

The original comment I replied to, a one-liner with the most overused platitude possible, did not invite any further conversation and contributed nothing which is why I sarcastically called it out.

Yes, he's getting over it by not working on a project that he didn't get much pleasure out of anyway. Seems fine to me.