• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You can just not publish your actual contacts and choose what you will and wont offer support on your public facing persona.

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      2 days ago

      That’s what I do 😁. No real names unless it’s something I don’t care about.

      I only support a couple of pip/composer/ect…and others package it up for any specific is or implementation. I always tell people “I will accept new prs” but if say I’m on vacation, I just don’t look at the package. If it’s bad enough, someone can fork and everyone else can move on with their lives. Hasn’t happened yet on the couple of packages that got popular (?) but it’s the lifecycle of open source.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      But then you can’t offer support to users of your upstream code.

      This is an issue of open source etiquette and there’s no technical solution that can solve it. There have been numerous passionate developers who have been run right out of open source by well-meaning users who simply don’t know the protocol around contacting a developer for support.