Why I forked httpx | Blog

I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package

More related drama: The Slow Collapse of MkDocs (https://fpgmaas.com/blog/collapse-of-mkdocs/)
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs

How personality clashes, an absent founder, and a controversial redesign fractured one of Python's most popular projects.

>thread to call out Read the Docs for profiting from MkDocs without contributing back.

>They also point out that not opening up the source code goes against the principles of Open Source software development

I will never stop being amused when people have feelings like this and also choose licenses like BSD (this project). If you wanted a culture that discouraged those behaviors, why would you choose a license that explicitly allows them? Whether you can enforce it or not, the license is basically a type of CoC that states the type of community you want to have.