[mplanchard]

It’s not a valid feature request when the colors are already all configurable, so anyone can change them to be however they like. The green being a little yellower than this person preferred is not a problem worthy of bothering the people who wrote the software. Non-issues like this sap the will to live of people building cool things for free on their own time.

Edit: personally I don’t have the time to go digging through old repo issues of a project I don’t even work on for the sake of arguing about one entitled user. I do maintain several projects, and I definitely feel that these kind of aggressive non-issues are the worst.

[pseudalopex]

Configurability doesn't eliminate the importance of good defaults.

It wasn't just a little yellower than they preferred. It looked yellow to them.

As a maintainer I definitely feel your attitude is worse than theirs.

[mplanchard]

Again, it looking yellow is a part of the theme. The names of the terminal colors are not supposed to correspond to exact colors all the time, otherwise there would be no such thing as a theme. They are just the names of the colors used for certain kinds of output in the default theme.

As for my attitude, luckily as a maintainer it’s my right to have whatever attitude I choose about the software I write, and people are free to use or not use the software as they see fit. It’s also my right to make my own decisions about when I feel like people are wasting my time unnecessarily, and particularly about when they’re being jerks about it.

Personally I find it very hard to maintain enthusiasm for the actual work of building the software when having to deal with entitlement in the issue tracker.

[pseudalopex]

Again defaults matter. Certainly no one can stop you from feeling aggrieved or reacting hostilely. Personally I find it harder to maintain enthusiasm when dealing with attitudes like yours.

[mplanchard]

I mean, that’s fine I guess? You, as a theoretical person reporting an issue, are not the one who’s got to keep the project going, and it’s not my, the theoretical maintainer’s, job to keep you enthused.

[pseudalopex]

I didn't say as someone reporting an issue.