[a254613e]

Oh come on, someone asked you a technical question - you can't expect everyone to research the country of origin, country of residence, and perhaps a personal situation of every private person, developer, or a company before emailing them.

[thombat]

The whole sentence is self-explanatory:

> One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply.

Innocently asking the question seems fine; as you say we generally don't know the personal circumstances of online contacts. But once appraised of it a quick reply would be human, at least to the effect of "good luck, keep as safe as possible & please ignore my question until happier times are restored"

[zeroping]

Those few words are a perfectly adequate response though. The author has bigger things to get done right now.

[alephnan]

Then why not cache the response and just put a banner on the project giving people context, instead of individually half answering the technical questions with a rhetorical question?

[brandonjm]

They did, the README was updated 4 days ago with a banner explaining the situation.