> If I as a developer feel personally attacked (and I did that) the chances that I with the maintainer hat on will revert my patch goes down and not up
My 'attacking' him comment: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321190#c17
His comment accusing me of attacking him: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321190#c20
I had similar experience proposing patches and people feeling offended because I criticized their "sacred" selected options. People identify with their work, so if you criticize their work, they fell criticized.
"Trust me on this one, I am the one right because it is me and I have so much experience than anybody else..."
It seems at the end of the day FOSS is not different than other organizations in the power fights area.