[deedubaya]

Hold up.

1) If you don't agree, don't contribute (time or money). You're doing OSS wrong.

2) Obviously Yehuda has given a lot to Rails and other OSS communities. He recognizes a problem (regardless of its origin) that he wants to fix. Posts like this will drive people like him away. I know my life is easier because of the work Yehuda has done. If you don't like it, go back to Rails 2.X, or help fix it yourself.

3) Thinking back to the Rails 2 days, things weren't dramatically better for dependencies and getting Rails setup. This project would be applicable then.

4) Posts like this will only drive away the contributions of a smart, giving person. Lots of people make a lot of money off the work the Rails Core Team has done, don't label one of them a thief because they need financial help to focus their improvements on a specific pain point.

[subspacedout]

A significant amount of time was spent letting advancement stagnate so we could have enterprise features we have now...the features Yehuda wants to be paid to fix.

This project says "Hey, I have helped make Rails a pain in the ass to use unless you know Rails really well. Instead of fixing this at the core level you can pay me to make something else to fix this!"

What's next? A program to make bundler work better? I expect more from a project like rails. It is like an Xbox game with zero day paid DLC. "Here is rails. Now contribute money so I can make it work as advertised!"

[davidrupp]

The author, with this article, is not "doing" OSS. He's "doing" persuasive writing. That he not contribute to the project is a given, since he doesn't agree with it. Having and expressing an opinion about whether or not others should contribute is well within his purview. If you're not swayed -- remain unswayed. Others may be.