Open Source vs. vacation

I spent two weeks with my family on vacation in Austria. When I came back, I had a long thread of emails in my inbox about a feature request for my JsonMapper library. ​

The worst thing in there was the following comment: ​

But anyways, I see that this repository or it's dead or the author doesn't care with the PR's. ​

Claudio Santoro, student with much time ​

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14 days. Fourteen. No answer within 14 days, and you do not care. THIS SUCKS. ​

This falls into the same line as What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer , Why I took October off from OSS volunteering and After 10 years, I'm stopping my work on sabre/dav . ​

People expect everything and more from Open Source software and their maintainers, without thinking at least a little bit. Those people suck. ​

Written by Christian Weiske.

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