[belval]

I don't know their project, but personally I don't have anything against people "bumping" a thread that has gone cold without an actual solution. I am busy and I don't take my open source project very seriously so things do fall through the cracks from time to time.

EDIT: This is a small scale project and the user waited 19 days before bumping. To me that's perfectly reasonable.

[notreallyserio]

Bumping can also defeat the stalebot plague. I wholeheartedly encourage bumping until stalebot is improved to either a) stop existing or b) consider emoji reactions when deciding if an issue is "stale".

[nohankyou]

The user who bumped it just created their GitHub account a couple hours ago, that person wasn't even involved in the original request.

[belval]

That doesn't make the issue any less legitimate. If someone pings me for problem X and I don't solve their issue, if someone finds the thread on Google and bumps it that's still one of my users having an issue.

Above all, I much prefer this to people that find my email/LinkedIn and pings me there. That's where I draw the line.

[horsawlarway]

I don't understand why that matters at all.

[nohankyou]

They only created the account to bump a request they had no involvement in. I could understand the original requestor asking for an update, but this is just some rando with no contributions to any project at all.

[xboxnolifes]

Just because they didn't bring up the original request doesn't mean they aren't interested in it having a solution.

[ziml77]

How do you know they weren't keeping an eye on the issue before creating an account?

Or maybe they just ran into a case where they need the issue resolved, but aren't sure if they should wait or if it's likely to take long enough that they should find an alternative or a workaround.

[horsawlarway]

Again - who cares?

If they went to the trouble of creating an account just to bump this issue... they probably care about it. Asking for update is just as often a way to subtly say "Can I pick this up?" or "Is there a way I can help move this ticket?" or "There was a pr, is this not getting merged because you won't accept this changeset?"

You seem to be making a value judgement I just don't get - who fucking cares if it's just some rando - they were all random people when they started the thread...

[nohankyou]

Lazy people who just want stuff done for free, now.

[horsawlarway]

And yet... that question got an appropriate and helpful response:

This is blocked because the primary author is not available to help due to geopolitical issues.

Even if it is just some lazy person who wants stuff done (and frankly - I think that attitude is fairly defeatist - you have no idea who that person is) why are you letting them occupy your headspace if that's what you think?

Basically - even if they are lazy, you making the assumption makes you an asshole. Worse - it makes you less effective, because you take a possible volunteer and snub them immediately. Between the two - I'm much more annoyed by your behavior than theirs.