if they are rude or mean to their users, then that may well be criticized. (that doesn't make them above any criticism. FOSS maintainers are volunteers and absolutely do not deserve that kind of criticism for just developing software. but that's about it.Ĭriticism is the bane of our society. you can say: "unfortunately, i have this problem, so i can't use this, i am going to go use something else".
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Users should be free to be critical of itĪbsolutely not. what's next? asking that they commit a minimum number of hours each week for the project? demanding that they respond to any request within a day? you don't know what other responsibilities they have. time is to short to worry about every single low priority problem.Īnd how dare you judge someone elses effectiveness as a maintainer! i may be asking for help in general, but i won't ask for help for every specific issue unless that issue is a priority for my self and i can't fix it. When i put something out there, i do it to share what i build for myself and for my own needs. I hate this philosophy of yours with all my might. What needs just as much fixing as the raised issue is your attitude towards open source. Many people don't have that use case, and of those who do, nobody bothered to fix it yet. "Nobody should use Deluge" is an unsuitable statement, just because it has an issue in your use case. It is clearly not impacting as many people as you make it sound like. Yet, in the last 10 years, apparently nobody found it so bad that they fixed it. This is Hacker News, lots of people on here should have the competence to fix this. It's open source, you are free to go fix it yourself.
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Do you really demand somebody who already gave something to you for free to do even more work for free to implement something that they don't need themselves? Why would they do it? To get you to stop complain? It's just not an issue for them and they choose to do other things in life than fix it for you. And they apparently also don't want to spend the time and energy to fix an issue that they don't have. They likely don't need proxy settings for themselves. You are free to use it and express what you think about it, and the maintainers are equally free to do with your opinion whatever they like, which includes ignoring it.Ĭlearly, none of the maintainers found this to be a problem.
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Yes, for a Windows port you may need to know some GUI aspects.įor you and everybody else complaining about this aspect: This is open source software. EDIT: Sorry, confused this with the parallel subthread about the proxy issue. Not just for users, but also for developers - you don't need to have any clue about GUIs to fiddle with the network-related part of the program.
Which is a very nice design choice, if you ask me. This is clearly an issue in the server part of the client/server model that Deluge has. P.S.: I'm not sure why you need to "learn GUIs" for this. (Especially for an issue that clearly many people don't care about, including users.) But to just keep complaining beyond a certain point is just a waste of energy.
It's a different story when some issue is brought up the very first time because somebody wasn't aware who would like to be aware and also willing to do something about it. (Well, maybe it will, but that would actually be pretty sad.) It's just that they've so far had other priorities in life. It's not like the maintainers are not aware of the issue. But it's not particularly helpful or meaningful. I'm not saying it's an invalid complaint.
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