I hit a same conclusion about a popular framework (that shall remain unnamed) on a different platform a few years back.
It feels like it should be simple: I disagreed with how the maintainer was doing things, so I decided the package was not for me. No need to hassle them about it. I wish it could be that simple.
Instead, I had to weather a fair bit of defending my choice to use a different, less popular option, and there's apparently no honest answer I can give that won't be taken as an attack on the framework or its users. And refusing to engage with the question is, of course, rude.
I'm finding that Internet culture wears me down, these days. Even when you don't go looking for flamewars, they come looking for you.
With less-popular libraries, it's easier. Open an issue, say hi, make sure the maintainer knows what you're planning on doing, do it, learn a few things, have a nice day. Once or twice I've been asked to more-or-less rewrite the patch because the maintainer didn't like something about my coding style, which is also fine, and often a good way to try a different way of doing things on for size. It's all pretty benign. But popular, well-known projects have this way of getting political.
I suspect that the worst thing that could possibly happen to one of my labors of love would be for lots of other people to like it, too. A few people, great. But I don't want my free time to become Internet politicized.
It feels like it should be simple: I disagreed with how the maintainer was doing things, so I decided the package was not for me. No need to hassle them about it. I wish it could be that simple.
Instead, I had to weather a fair bit of defending my choice to use a different, less popular option, and there's apparently no honest answer I can give that won't be taken as an attack on the framework or its users. And refusing to engage with the question is, of course, rude.
I'm finding that Internet culture wears me down, these days. Even when you don't go looking for flamewars, they come looking for you.
With less-popular libraries, it's easier. Open an issue, say hi, make sure the maintainer knows what you're planning on doing, do it, learn a few things, have a nice day. Once or twice I've been asked to more-or-less rewrite the patch because the maintainer didn't like something about my coding style, which is also fine, and often a good way to try a different way of doing things on for size. It's all pretty benign. But popular, well-known projects have this way of getting political.
I suspect that the worst thing that could possibly happen to one of my labors of love would be for lots of other people to like it, too. A few people, great. But I don't want my free time to become Internet politicized.