| This. Trying to make the software "theirs" seems to be an issue at Google, at least with their open source software and has seemed to have lead to it being less reliable. For example, Angular Material v1 was one of the most complete and stable front-end packages on the market a few years ago. Then, back in 2017 the lead developer for the project was replaced with a new dev. This new dev then went about assigning every issue and pull request to himself, modifying or rejecting pr's that had previously been approved, closing issues that had in progress pr's as won't fix, locking discussions, and just generally breaking stuff. (I've personally had to peg my project to v1.4 because everything since 2016 has been a regression) If you go to the Angular Material v1.x Github page today, you'll see the same dev on pretty much everything. This isn't productive ownership as it prioritizes the engineer over the customer and has lead to a generally broken system from one of the most stable properties out there. Not to mention, these open-source projects are most people's first exposure to Google's code... Having them be unpredictable regarding the functionality of their software with little concern for users/contributors in the name of making their devs feel special seems like a bad model to learn from. |