Sin of David Sheldrick aka ds300 about jetzt

[peteruithoven]

ds300 took the time just a few months ago to merge a couple of pull requests: https://github.com/ds300/jetzt/pulls

Referencing Vitaly Kaloyev is really uncalled for. @sergeevabc I've reported you with Github.

[sergeevabc]

Err… Hello?

[peteruithoven]

Don't be rude, we're all volunteers.
Please see issues like:

• #145
• #22

[sergeevabc]

#145
In jetzt.solid.min.js search for the substring target_wpm:400 and change 400 to whatever WPM

It implies rehosting custom version of script somewhere—not flexible at all. Hence the question whether @ds300 could update Jetzt to set speed parameter by means of editing bookmarklet, not the script.

[ds300]

Hey @sergeevabc , sorry I don't actively work on this project any more, but would be happy to review a PR if you have the time.

[sergeevabc]

Had user been able to polish reported roughness, he would be called a developer.
The latter role is yours, hence the badge, yet passion to carry on seems to be lost.
Consider marking project as abandoned to strangle illusory hopes for changes at birth.

[ds300]

It is often unrealistic to expect the maintainers of an open source project to implement one's feature requests. It is always uncouth to become pissy when they do not. I will not mark the project as abandoned. If bugs are reported I will attempt to fix them. But I am not currently inclined to implement new features for a thing I don't even use. Unless somebody is willing to pay. You still want a customisable bookmarklet? My rate is 600€ a day.

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[sergeevabc]

Core value of open source philosophy besides freedom to look inside is to make life easier voluntarily.
And making life easier means doing, even with loose schedules and vague roles, not procrastination.
Whereas you, @ds300, have been neglecting the community for years with no courage to be honest.
Instead you pollute our hearts with infeasible promises and extort money, thus disgracing mankind.

[gywn]

The core value of open source philosophy besides freedom is to share solutions that make one's life easier.

By releasing his software under the Apache License, @ds300 has granted everyone possibility to modify and use freely his code at one's intention. That's something huge.

Similarly, all the other things, like whether the creator will merge or update or not, is up to his intention as well.

[sergeevabc]

@gywn, we’re at the public issue tracker and not within his private walls, hence the public expectations.
Want to share with no further responsibility? State this honestly in the first place and mute the feedback.

[gywn]

@sergeevabc That's exactly what the 8th term (Limitation of Liability) in the Apache License is for.

[sergeevabc]

@gywn, software license might help you to talk a way out of trouble within the walls of court.
Outside there is always another Vitaly Kaloyev waiting to counterbalance the damage.
You gain people’s trust, they rely on you, then gone fishing for years without notice?
Unfair, selfish, recreant. That’s how @ds300 disgraces mankind.

[peteruithoven]

I feel like @sergeevabc is trolling us

[ds300]

Did he just imply that I deserve to be murdered? For releasing some free software and then not wanting to work on it anymore? Daaamn. Brother has high standards.

[gywn]

@sergeevabc You failed to see the creator's selflessness in the first place, and turn moralism into threats of legal illiteracy. We might just end the conversations here.

[sergeevabc]

Did he just imply that I deserve to be murdered?

@ds300, it means you deserve all this public censure since you offended the community (or betrayed the brotherhood, if you will) by committing the sin of sloth for years (i.e. laziness, carelessness, unwillingness to act, half-hearted effort). Retribution should relate to the extent of guilt obviously.

…not wanting to work on it anymore…

Have the guts to inform the public that a new maintainer is wanted so no improvement should be expected until then and go through opened issues to repent for unfulfilled promises and ignored calls.

[sergeevabc]

@peteruithoven, merging pull requests is the interaction between developers, while dozens of issues posted by ordinary users are neglected for years, some of them stay without even a basic reply out of decency. And don’t forget to send screenshots to police to make them laugh about referencing Wikipedia as an illustration of cause-and-consequence that happens in the adult world, as a call to be responsible.