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@mohammed
Exactly not everyone!
I have witnessed a situation where the owner of repo , closed my issue stating duplicate and mailed me all the previous issue no. Regarding it! -
Rule of thumb: Never depend on a library which is maintained by a single person or which doesn’t have a history of accepted pull requests.
The exception, of course, is when your organisation controls/pays the maintainer.
Nowadays, github is littered by projects existing only because github projects look good for a potential employer.
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That's a good one!
I use a library and it gives me some strange error message. No problemo, just file an issue on GitHub asking the maintainer if I'm plain stupid or the lib actually has a flaw. As it was a question, I have not posted a dump and all the shit.
Maintainer responds with a snarky comment about his crystal ball being broken and I have to submit a log, a dump, debug information and a bunch of other stuff.
Well, what choice do I have, I collect all the requested information, create a wall of text comment, all nicely formatted.
And the issue ends here. Myths say, the maintainer got asked to join Elvis on Mars.
I mean, why do you ask all the shit from me in a unprofessional manner just to stop answering? Just say "I have no clue why it behaves like this" and I know whats playin. But that's just ... sad.
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