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by gavinpc 3330 days ago
Uglify is a mature and widely-used package. I use it and I love it. It's been years since uglify2, and I was excited to see this.

But... it appears that there are no release notes for version 3, apart from the three negative points at the top of the README: backwards incompatible, twice as slow on the latest Node, and still no ES6 (edit out of the box). No rationale for (or detail of) the breaking change is given. Really bizzare.
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pygy_ 3330 days ago
Given the (rude and unhelpful) reply from the team, I suppose it was a premature release.

https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/1875

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Thorncorona 3330 days ago
The issue opener's phrasing was probably why the response was also rude.
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lucideer 3330 days ago
While the issue opener is quite brisk and curt, they hardly goes as far as overt rudeness. The blank non-response is astoundingly rude and dismissive in contrast.
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carrotmirror 3329 days ago
Give me a break. The project maintainer is volunteering his time to help the javascript community and is doing a fantastic job fixing dozens of bugs and adding new optimizations and features - often the same day as issues are opened. Rather than nag him, step up and review the commits yourself and make a pull request implementing a ChangeLog.
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lucideer 3329 days ago
Exactly. And asking the opener (or somebody in general) to do so would've been a reasonable and polite response.

Unceremoniously closing the ticket on the other hand seems to me to indicate the maintainer really doesn't care.

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