[vfclists]

Reasonable expectation does not equate to entitlement.

So what is the person who finds the flaw supposed to do:

1. announce to all the other users of the library to download his branch with just the single fix

2. report it to the maintainer with a suitable patch, discuss it, and hope the maintainer applies it sooner rather than later.

TBH the maintainer sounds like the boy with the soccer ball who ends the match and takes his ball home with him, because the opposing side scored against his team.

[atoav]

To me the maintainer sounds more like the boy who brought everybody cake and then left the party when the other boys started nagging about how their mothers would make much better cake and how his cake is all wrong.

[twic]

It's more that he bought a cake, but it wasn't cooked in the middle, so there was a chance people could get food poisoning, and the other people at the party pointed that out and suggested ways to cook cakes more consistently, but the author really likes cooking soggy cakes, and he's never got sick from it so it must be fine, so he left the party and told everyone the others were mean to him.

[comfyinnernet]

It's more like he bought a cake but the brakes were faulty and it skidded off the road and killed an innocent trifle.