> The example scenario isn't "person asks the waiter for a hot dog; waiter just keeps walking past them, blanking them as if they don't even exist".
First: that scenario is actually still just fine when the establishment is a soup kitchen. When the people providing the service are providing it for free funded entirely out of their own pocket then no user of the free service is entitled to anything, ever.
Second: that isn't an accurate description of what happened, as you should know because you read the thread in full. What actually happened is that a maintainer responded to the issue back in January with a soft timeline. OP began harassing that maintainer less than halfway through the provided timeline.
When they got ignored for just over a week (which is, again, entirely reasonable especially given that a timeline was already offered) OP proceeded to write not one but three "FUCKUJimmy" acrostics further harassing the maintainer who had provided the initial timeline.
Then, on May 9, which is well within the initial estimate, the maintainer provided an update saying that the timeline had to be pushed back. OP's reaction to that was to try to bring the project hate on HN.
In what universe is any of this behavior by OP acceptable?