The KeePassXC kerfuffle

Posted May 24, 2024 16:23 UTC (Fri) by lunaryorn (subscriber, #111088)
In reply to: The KeePassXC kerfuffle by pizza
Parent article: The KeePassXC kerfuffle

As I said, my point's not about who's right or wrong here, or whether upstream's request to revert was justified or not.

My point is that I find the response of the downstream maintainer pretty rude and disrespectful. Even if they were undoubtedly right and correct, it's still not okay to call upstream "crap", and being entirely unsympathetic to upstream's issues with their decision certainly didn't help.

See, if they had just said "I'm sorry that this change of mine ended up on your issue tracker. I still would like to change the default build configuration, but let's perhaps talk about how we can handle this transition together without causing issues to upstream?" we probably wouldn't have this article on LWN. But they didn't, so here we are...

The KeePassXC kerfuffle

Posted May 24, 2024 17:09 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> My point is that I find the response of the downstream maintainer pretty rude and disrespectful.

The disrespect went in both directions, and from each party's point of view, was justifiable.

And it's very easy to stand on the sidelines and say "you should do better" when you're not the one(s) under attack.

It seems to me the only ones "wrong" here are the actual end-users.