FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell
This is kind of open letter I suppose. I’ve seen a lot of similar stuff happen in other projects too, like GNOME. So I wanted to write down what happened to me and my inbox today. It’s written in my perspective, but I’m sure many can sympathize. And I sympathize with them.
You don’t need to yell
KDE Plasma 5.27 landed with my outline change that I made for accessibility reasons mostly. You can read more about it in here: https://www.akselmo.dev/2022/10/31/I-made-outlines-for-KDE-Breeze.html
They certainly have been dividing opinions. I think that’s fine. I do enjoy good critique and discussion: It’s how things get better!
However, what I don’t enjoy is:
- Getting my blog comments spammed with “Revert the outlines, they’re ugly”
- Asking people to send developers angry messages
- Acting like an complete ass, then hiding behind the whole “but it was critique!” facade.
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