| In a word: Humility. The maintainers of LogStash, for example, have a philosophy that "If our users are confused, it is a bug. It is not that they are stupid." Another good example is PHPUnit, whose maintainer unarguably has a much higher prestige in the PHP developer community than I do, yet responded to trolling by implementing the change I suggested and taking the time to hash and PGP sign all of the past releases. https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/1334 The CodeIgniter maintainers responded to my gripes about their CI_Encrypt library by researching and writing a brand new library to fulfill that role. And of course, we have some good bad examples. OpenCart: https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/1534 https://github.com/opencart/opencart/pull/1594 Mojolicious: https://github.com/kraih/mojo/issues/656 Etcetera. Humble lead developers are less caustic and create less barriers for entry. This encourages people to contribute and allows a community to flourish. |