i wonder if rich felker realizes the people he's replying to are often also open source maintainers
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twitter.com/RichFelker/sta i thought "i don't want to start an argument" and "maybe taking a few minutes to cool off" would make this less irritating but, like. look. i know most of us are not going to be Libc Maintainers Online who handle The Firehose Of Unappreciate Masses
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Replying to @monadliker
With the understanding that (a) might actually impose more labor on the maintainers than you think unless you're already really well versed in working with the project...
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idk man, you don't have to worry about any cryptic patches or confusing bug reports from me, i decided a while ago i don't care to use musl
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personally i have found that people who care to open a bug report or send a patch are net better than people who do not, and i deeply appreciate that people care to try making the thing we're collaboratively using any better
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Bug reports from developers are a different ball game than bug reports from most end users.
If the users of your projects are primarily or only developers, be very thankful.
I dread the dozen daily feature requests we get and the common reactions to closing nearly all of them.
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that's fine, but rich probably is getting but reports from generally *very motivated and fairly competent developers* even - who else is going to be reporting bugs against a non-standard libc..?
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There are probably a lot of people on Gentoo, Alpine, etc. reporting compatibility issues with software and other things like that. I don't follow those mailing lists, etc. My experience with that was a former Arch Linux packager dealing with the g r s e c and related packages.
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yeah that i can't imagine intentionally dealing with, and respect for spending any time reading that
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also, even with developers, I find that people are so often wanting to debate design choices that have been discussed in detail both privately and publicly many times before, and they can get really pissed off if you won't debate with them until they are on the same page or bored
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I do find that devs and especially people maintaining open source projects are usually very understanding and respectful of time. They tend to search first, provide detail and are a lot more understanding when you close something simply saying you don't consider it in scope, etc.