[wildmanx]

It's your right to as a user choose projects based on that criterion. It sounds reasonable to me.

But it's not your right to demand anything from a project, including demanding that they do basic maintenance or disclose whether they are going to do it. Maybe they don't even know, or maybe they change their mind lots of times ever year or every day. If you don't get a promise of this happening, neither assume anything nor start to demand it.

(Even if you get a promise, if it's some individual writing something on the net, it's not worth much. If they fail doing it despite the promise, they are being idiots, which they are free to be, and you are free to ignore them going forward or be angry.)

The attitude that published open source software is generally expected to be supported with basic maintenance is bad. It burns out creators who also believe in this myth and it creates an atmosphere that fosters this and in the end, less software is placed under open source licenses because people feel that that would include some obligation after. It does not. Just because you find some piece of code on the internet does not entitle you to anything.

[ricardobeat]

I’ve been publishing and contributing to open source software for 15+ years and have never experienced that attitude. Granted, none of my stuff reached huge success, but they are out there; I’ve also been close to a few mainstream projects, and from my POV this seems exaggerated. If anything, scaremongering comments like yours are what might stop people from publishing more.

It’s also pretty straightforward to disable issues in GitHub and ignore all the noise.

[wildmanx]

Then how do you explain the original article that we are discussing here? He's just imagining the problems that he is addressing in there?

Just look around this thread, you can find the described attitude even here.