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   Geoffrey Thomas (geofft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 08:43:05 JST Geoffrey Thomas

   LRT: I wonder if open-source projects will start treating aggressive questions about "when is the next release" as a potential attack. I'm undecided about whether this is good; it may well be.

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     Geoffrey Thomas (geofft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 08:43:03 JST Geoffrey Thomas

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     This is, btw, why I think it's morally incumbent on corporate users of open source to have a way to build patched versions of the software internally, well before they need it. You have the resources to do so, and your timeline is not the maintainer's timeline. At some point you will need to apply a patch to one of your dependencies. Do not engineer yourself into a place where the the thing that delivers the most business value is to bully the maintainer.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 08:46:11 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @geofft Reminds me of why for me support is only gratis for fellow people but even then you can't push, volunteers set their own times.
     You can only order around if you're an employer/contractor, after all that's why they pay you.