[dbcfd]

> Maintainers of large projects are not even allowed to have a bad day, to make a brusque comment, or to disagree with a majority -- without someone trying to stir up a lynch mob. It sickens me the lack of balance between the work done by the maintainers, and the expectations of random users.

Sure they are. There's a number of projects out there with a massive caveat on the front page that says "Not for production use". They are then more than free to close issues with comments like "Hey I'm researching a new refcell implementation, thanks for finding this, but I'm more interested in speed than safety at this point."

Actix did not put up a disclaimer, and in a lot of cases, either closed issues/patches without comment, or with a somewhat demeaning comment. It was not just published as a fast and safe production ready web framework, it was promoted as such, so the author should expect patches in that vein.

There were multiple bad actors involved here, but it stems from a maintainer who took issue with anyone finding problems in his code.

[Traster]

Sorry, it doesn’t work that way, come on github isn’t intended for production unless specified otherwise. The default assumption is “This is just some code I don’t own”. Even repos that do make some claim of support or quality should be treated with suspicion. The onus is on the person using the Open source project to do due diligence.

[ssokolow]

But it's not just "code on github". It has the very professional-looking https://actix.rs/ and so on.