No, obviously you would not like to help unless it's 100% on your terms, and you're not even telling which terms they are. Which is not very helpful at all and, in fact, showing a considerable degree of dickitude.
It's this attitude that makes me never want to use ember.js. If you check out his twitter account, you can see countless battles with new people just getting into ember.
If you want someone to use your framework, it shouldn't be a verbal battle of passive aggressiveness and other childish antics.
He is doing a disservice to the community and the framework.
Before, I had no interest in ember.js. Today I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. Because so many people are trying to bury it, for some reason which has nothing to do with technical concerns.
If I feel like it's just going to be met with someone personally attacking me because I don't agree with their practices, I will just find another community (and framework/library).
It's funny because I've seen some of the same sort of issues with the Ruby community...and Trek is part of that community too.
I don't see nearly as much of this in other communities and I often wonder if it's because of the leadership/certain type of culture that the community is built upon.
I think what this really comes down to is a few very simple reasons he doesn't need to respond to this:
- He and the Ember team have heard it before and many times said they're working on this (I know I've seen that stated publicly many times)
- There are only so many people you can respond to. Again, the team knows, they're on it, no response required
- A front page HN post does not automatically mean the project maintainers need to respond.
- This is OSS. Like Trek says, there's only so much time he can devote to this stuff especially for free.
I think we need to give him a break here.
The kind of feedback that has a point?