It feels like the "Old World" of open source was mostly about passionate people developing (and open sourcing) software for other similarly passionate people (think of some of the great projects on Freshmeat 20 years ago). I am not saying it was perfect but there used to be some sort of etiquette.
Now the demographic has changed drastically. On the "maintainer" side you have a lot more people just dumping their stuff on Github (public repos were the only one free) and only want to collect the positive ("feel good", resume padding).
On the "Consumer" side you have way more people that completely abuse online helping channels such as StackOverflow, or Github issues (how many times have I seen someone say "hello it does not work can you help me").
It reminds me on how IT departments evolved in Corporations where years of abuse lead IT departments to develop a very conservative defense mechanism that basically leads to the function being solely self serving.
I am shocked reading this thread that it has become completely ok to flat out ignore legitimate and well researched/documented bug reports. Feels like we are throwing the baby with the water here.
It feels like the "Old World" of open source was mostly about passionate people developing (and open sourcing) software for other similarly passionate people (think of some of the great projects on Freshmeat 20 years ago). I am not saying it was perfect but there used to be some sort of etiquette.
Now the demographic has changed drastically. On the "maintainer" side you have a lot more people just dumping their stuff on Github (public repos were the only one free) and only want to collect the positive ("feel good", resume padding).
On the "Consumer" side you have way more people that completely abuse online helping channels such as StackOverflow, or Github issues (how many times have I seen someone say "hello it does not work can you help me").
It reminds me on how IT departments evolved in Corporations where years of abuse lead IT departments to develop a very conservative defense mechanism that basically leads to the function being solely self serving.
I am shocked reading this thread that it has become completely ok to flat out ignore legitimate and well researched/documented bug reports. Feels like we are throwing the baby with the water here.