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Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

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Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#41

Post by shpx »

Valodim wrote: post #6

This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an out and it was ultimately a good thing.

No idea if this is the case here, but I hope the author sticks with this decision. Although, looking at https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/graphs/co... , it doesn't look like he started this project, so I'm not sure it's his place to archive it.

Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#44

Post by Sesse__ »

sudahtigabulan wrote: post #35
siva7 wrote: post #14

I get anxiety publishing open source because of things like this.

Try publishing on https://repo.or.cz (or another old-style web interface), and just leave an email for contact. You will hear only crickets. Adding the slightest friction, and making potential drama 1:1 only, demotivates most people. You might miss out on an occasional good feedback, though.

I don't have my stuff on GitHub, but git push will send me email with a patch. I actually get real, useful patches out of it (more than before I had only email); not huge stuff, but scratching people's itches and bugs; stuff I can mostly just apply right away. I never get pure junk (e.g. the “I'm sure you want to switch to My Favorite Build System” patches, or AI slop). So somehow, for me, this is pretty much the perfect level of friction, it seems.

Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#46

Post by [deleted] »

Sesse__ wrote: post #44
sudahtigabulan wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try publishing on https://repo.or.cz (or another old-style web interface), and just leave an email for contact. You will hear only crickets. Adding the slightest friction, and making potential drama 1:1 only, demotivates most people. You might miss out on an occasional good feedback, though.

I don't have my stuff on GitHub, but git push will send me email with a patch. I actually get real, useful patches out of it (more than before I had only email); not huge stuff, but scratching people's itches and bugs; stuff I can mostly just apply right away. I never get pure junk (e.g. the “I'm sure you want to switch to My Favorite Build System” patches, or AI slop). So somehow, for me, this is pretty much the per…

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Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#47

Post by tasuki »

shpx wrote: post #41
Valodim wrote: post #6

This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an…

> doesn't look like he started this project, so I'm not sure it's his place to archive it.

This is a very valid point. It indeed looks like it was done in affect rather than after careful discussion with the (at least) ten members of the nvim-treesitter org.

Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#48

Post by onehair »

> since people apparently can't read

I know Free and OpenSource software is only available thanks to maintainers who spend their time and money to make it available. This type of sentence though, makes all I just mentioned easy to forget, when they take that tone with you.

Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#49

Post by xboxnolifes »

sevg wrote: post #7

I will never understand people like GitHub user “shushtain” in the linked issue. So obviously the guy is behaving like an entitled jerk, but it’s also surely counter-productive (volunteer maintainers are unlikely to respond well to plain rudeness)? Unless the goal isn’t a productive outcome, but just to be mean?

You see, humans are emotional beings, not rational beings. Surely you've seen examples of that basically everywhere there is human interactions.

Re: Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived

#50

Post by martin-t »

shpx wrote: post #41
Valodim wrote: post #6

This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an…

If you had the option to also delete all your contributions to the side, would you have done it?

If you had the option to exclude only certain people (e.g. those who argues with you) from seeing/using your contributions, would you have done it instead of deleting your account?

I am asking because I've too been burned and it's very commonly how an open source contributor's journey ends. So I've been toying with the idea that contributors should be able to exclude certain people or perhaps even groups of people from using their work.

Basically "I give away my work for free for anyone to use and build upon but if you don't appreciate it, if you treat me like shit, if you do any of X Y Z which hurts me or other people, then you're no longer allowed to use it".

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