I would argue that in this case the maintainers are in the wrong for not even responding to the issue, not the reporter responding with memes.
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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
After a extremely long week, I sometimes participate in open source. I have to deal with malicious commits. I have to follow up on issues from misguided individuals who are actually looking for tech support. I have to guide new contributors to how this massive repo works and to submit tests. I have to negotiate with the core team and these convos can often last months/years.
And contributing to open-source is one of the few things that give me pleasure, even if it’s a extremely thankless job.
But I’m tired man.
I’m not dealing with low-quality memers who are providing zero value. Nor should we encourage it.
Anders429@programming.dev 11 months ago
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I do FOSS as well, but I’d rather people have fun punting the stalebot than just keep repeating “this issue still exists”