[felhr]

I just created and maintain a little Android library (a very rewarding experience by the way) so most of the complaints about Github doesnt really apply to me because the size and reach of my project (I understand the point perfectly though).

But I read some complaints about the users and the issues they tend to open and I fully agree. They are a minority but I can't only imagine what people with bigger projects have to deal with. This is what I've found:

- People with little to zero experience in the language/framework that simply state that my project doesn't work without providing more information and sometimes they didn't reply to my "give me more info" inquiries.

- Guys who just want to get their homework done and They are basically trying to get it done using me as non-paid freelance.

- And my favourite one, junior dev in a company, he needs to get their work done with more pressure than the previous one so became anxious about their problems and I feel it even via email. Eventually He gets the thing done but He notices I changed the build system to Jitpack for better dependency handling and and start to complain about Man in the middle attacks to his company and black-hat hackers replacing my lib with a malicious one (I guess it could happen but come on).

But it is a very rewarding experience besides these anecdotical cases

[Joeri]

It's the nature of any issue tracker to gather low-quality feedback. The people using the product who are happy with it or who can solve their own problems mostly aren't the ones booking issues, unless there are genuine bugs. Paradoxically, a high quality project will have fewer genuine issues to report, and therefore be sensitive to a lower average quality of feedback.

[jitpack]

Hi. your junior colleague might be interested in the security answer here https://jitpack.io/docs/FAQ/. It's an important matter so will be happy to answer any more questions via email/gitter.

You can also run JitPack on-premises and have full control over build artifacts.

[felhr]

Fortunately not my junior colleague! just a junior dev using my lib in his company's project. Thank you for the FAQ. I will forward it to him