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The word 'toxic' has become one of those overused words, much like 'epic' several years ago.
- Story 1: doesn't appear to be problematic, _but_ it could depend on the issue. Was it a major one or a tweak? Either way I'd say the maintainer has every right to choose the direction of the project. As for the fix - the reporter was able to fork it, so he's happy, I guess?
- Story 2: > 'A user asked a simple question that didn’t have an answer online'
I'm guessing 'online' would be the proverbial manual, so telling the users to RTFM would return null. Maybe there was a specific reason why they didn't want to share the information? As stated, could also be fatigue. Maybe way too many people had been asking about that?
All in all, both examples are fairly vague. It's hard to weigh in properly.
/personal_opinion -
I've met far more toxic people
I think it makes sense when someone does work for free that they may not want to engage with the project all smiles all the time
I think respect goes two ways. people have different personalities. they're not coming after you. which is how I've experienced toxic
you can fork it and take over from them if you wish. the option is always there
I would prefer that over a fake happy smiley atmosphere where people secretly do passive aggressive things because it's "not allowed" in the culture. now that gets actually toxic
you need to allow people some level of individual personality even if you may not like their personality. otherwise the actually toxic people will thrive -- because they already have the skills to hide themselves, if you make everyone hide themselves they will win the game because they've had the most experience in hiding and pretending to be team players while sabotaging people, projects, etc
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That's a good one!
Is It just me feel that open-source engineers angry all the time?
Here’s the story. In some open-source repositories, things can get pretty toxic.
Story 1: Someone reported a real problem in an open-source repo. The maintainer replied rudely, saying “Irrelevant, I dont care, will not fix.” So I fixed the issue myself and made a pull request. The owner ignored it (that’s okay), but the person who reported the issue used my fork instead and it worked fucking fine.
story 2: GitHub Issues is starting to feel like Stack Overflow......Some engineers / contributors are rude to users who just want help. A user asked a simple question that didn’t have an answer online, because the framework just worked that way. The engineers could have guided them or fixed it, but instead they said things like Get out or Go ask ChatGPT or Google it.
To be fair ,I understand engineers get tired of spam and useless issues like redundant , but we should still respect people who ask real questions or try to help, well common decency.
If these were my projects, I will treat te contributors, users, and followers with respect .
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