Jeff GeerlingMay 12, 2025

Pet peeve: People complaining about the way I maintain my open source projects under MIT license (particularly my decision to use stale bot, since I don't like seeing literal thousands of open issues across my repos).

Just fork it! No skin off my back. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/just-say-no

Just Say No | Jeff Geerling

Show threadRichard HughesMay 12, 2025
@geerlingguy if it helps I also get comments on the way I run fwupd, but it's never by the people trying to help. Telling a chronically underfunded open source project "it should just fix all the open issues rather than closing them" is just living in an alternative reality. Ignore the haters, you're doing great!
Show threadNad

@hughsie @geerlingguy

Honestly, don’t take it too personally. A lot of people don’t actually get that there may well be one guy mainting their fun open source project and have decided to make it public out of the kindness of your heart..

Also a lot of us on this industry have asburgers and things like that. It’s worth considering some of these people commenting may well be on the spectrum in some form or have some sort of social problems.

May 13, 2025 at 9:09amWeb
Show threadNadMay 13, 2025
@hughsie @geerlingguy
15 year old me wouldn’t have understood and probably would have annoyed y’all just the same 🤣
Much love for all y’all do.