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FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 18, 2023

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 yellKDE 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 messagesActing like an complete ass, then hiding behind the whole “but it was critique!” facade. [...]

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