[gapan]

Your comments show that you have a close understanding of technical details and processes used in the Gnome project. I believe you should come clean about what your relationship with the Gnome project is. As other have hinted, you do not seem like the impartial external only-just-a-user you claim to be. You clearly have an agenda.

You only registered an account yesterday and have only commented in this thread. Most of your replies include comments like the following:

* This seems to me a very bizarre request.

* That doesn't make sense.

* See, I think now you are being too overly dramatic.

* Perhaps that's proof that it isn't as bad as the vocal minority says it is?

* It's odd you say those things...

* Sorry but that's a really poor example and IMO not a valid complaint.

* Please avoid this narrative.

* You're disrespecting yourself and the readers of your comments by making these kind of hyperbolic statements.

* The issues you mention here are mostly not relevant anymore...

* Speak for yourself please...

That shows a pattern. You seem to dismiss everything everyone else is saying. Considering the history of attitude of Gnome developers towards users and their requests, this leaves little doubt of your connection.

[crashdancer]

I don't have any relationship or agenda. If you really want to know, I had an account here long ago but I received some very rude, hateful and harassing comments so I stopped posting and then lost the password. Is it that much of a stretch for you to believe there's a GNOME user who isn't angry at the developers and doesn't share your opinion? I don't get my FOSS news from social media. I read the developer's blogs and announcements directly and I don't assume they're lying or trying to hide some secret evil agenda, perhaps that's why you see contrasts between my attitude and the attitudes of others?

>You seem to dismiss everything everyone else is saying.

But disagreeing with something is not a dismissal. In cases where I disagree I'm careful to state the exact reasons why and discuss, or present some facts or explanations that someone may have overlooked. That's how to keep the discussion engaging even if you disagree. I'll only dismiss someone if they're intentionally rude. And this comment is against this part of the guidelines: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken." I don't have any way to advance the discussion when you do that, it's personally attacking and putting me on the defense when I haven't done anything but state my opinion. Can't you see how that becomes a way to systematically shut down discussions and make them hostile, when someone constantly throws those accusations at strangers?

>Considering the history of attitude of Gnome developers towards users and their requests

There is no free software project anywhere that is obligated to honor any user's requests. If you have a problem with this, you should not use FOSS. But if you absolutely need someone to honor your requests, you need to pay them and get the contract in writing so they're legally required to do so.