[danw1979]

How would giving credit to the author of the article (the person that did most of the legwork) cause the project maintainer to feel unhappy ? I simply don’t get that.

The project maintainer surely would have not felt bad giving credit to someone ? Exhibiting this kind of leadership usually makes me feel great !

On the contrary, as we see from the article, the lack of credit really did create unhappiness from thin air…

[marcinzm]

I agree that in this case the maintainer should have at least put then as a co-author. At the same time the maintainer should get credit for their own on the improved patch. Middle ground versus extremes of leader get's all explicit credit or leader gets no explicit credit.