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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 2 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.523s | source
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bla2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:02 UTC] No.17515883[source]▶
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(

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sjm-lbm ◴[12 Jul 18 16:09 UTC] No.17515955[source]▶
It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696

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Y_Y ◴[12 Jul 18 16:24 UTC] No.17516108[source]▶
That's a good read. I feel like the "customer is always right" mentality does quite a bit of harm to OSS support.

Also reminds me of that dev (who I can't seem to search up) who had their email printed as part of a open-source software license in a car manual and would get ridiculous email from people who had car trouble.

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Alex3917 ◴[12 Jul 18 17:48 UTC] No.17516964[source]▶
> "customer is always right" mentality does quite a bit of harm to OSS support.

It goes both ways. All too often people promote their new library on HN and Reddit, wait until a bunch of people are using it as a dependency, and then abandon it without even telling anyone whether or not it’s abandoned.

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jstarfish ◴[12 Jul 18 18:00 UTC] No.17517068[source]▶
Not using toy libraries for production systems is a lesson every young developer learns early on in their career.
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1. passiveincomelg ◴[12 Jul 18 18:22 UTC] No.17517245[source]▶
In what parallel universe are you and how do I find the next wormhole to get there? :)
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2. janoc ◴[12 Jul 18 19:17 UTC] No.17517728[source]▶
Well, that people don't do such things is not really the fault (nor problem) of the developer of that toy library, IMO.

Nobody else but you alone can ensure that your project is managed and developed properly.