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Comment by mattl | Hacker News Reader

The people who care about the free software should take the free software and make binaries and change the name or whatever they feel useful to get it into F-Droid.

The moment they show up in his issue tracker complaining about it, they're being zealous.

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Author took his time to get this into F-Droid in the first place and references the F-Droid link on their repo, what is so zealous about creating the issue to make sure it stays there?

The behavior of users on that thread makes me want to never publish anything in F-Droid.

Why the entitlement to have the project do the work for you?

>Why the entitlement to have the project do the work for you?

Because I for example consider a good tone at least giving upstream a heads up before forking and cutting out pieces of it.

There's nothing entitled about creating an issue on a public issue tracker that author can disable or limit at any time.

Why are you making things harder for the author? Once they marked it as something they don't want to fix, nobody else should be commenting or posting it on HN.

I am not making it harder for the author, nor have I posted it on HN. And person that has posted it on HN has linked to FDroid issue tracker, not projects GitHub link.

You as in the people commenting on GitHub aka "you lot", not you personally... :)

People are allowed to disapprove of the actions of FOSS devs and maintainers, and to post their disagreement online in places such as HN.

Feels like it's not okay to brigade someone's issue tracker.

Okay, but that's not what you said, nor what I commented about.

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