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by BetterThanSober 21 days ago
> positive collaborative environment

Yeah for human, by humans

For some critical software, open-source or not, a regression could literally kills, that's why I put SQLite as an example. A simple miss should NOT pass into stable, if it's an edge case due then yeah learn from it and built a test suite for that if possible

rsync is highly popular tools and a lot of people depends on them, whether you like it or not. At a certain point (I don't know what point, 10k, 20k, 500k users?) maintainers should respect the user expectations over their own ego and convenience

This is a problem for OSS in general, people treats their project like a hobby because it didn't pay enough, or corporates uses it without contributing back