However, it's hard to realistically expect one to go from being the maintainer of a hostile fork ...
Greg, "hostile fork"? I read Loren's blog post about the release of SlimGems and the motivations, and really got no sense at all of any hostilty.
As best I can tell, much like with YARD Loren decided he wanted to see some key part of the Ruby dev environment behave a certain way and wrote working code to make it so. I can only applaud that.
Having spent at least a little time chatting with Loren about YARD (he was terrific in clearing up dozens of questions at a MWRC) I'd be surprised if there was any anger or malice behind any of his projects.
It may be that the offering of these things in turn creates some annoyance for some people, but I doubt that's the intent.
I would much prefer to see more people code out their issues than complain on a mailing list or HN.
Greg, "hostile fork"? I read Loren's blog post about the release of SlimGems and the motivations, and really got no sense at all of any hostilty.
As best I can tell, much like with YARD Loren decided he wanted to see some key part of the Ruby dev environment behave a certain way and wrote working code to make it so. I can only applaud that.
Having spent at least a little time chatting with Loren about YARD (he was terrific in clearing up dozens of questions at a MWRC) I'd be surprised if there was any anger or malice behind any of his projects.
It may be that the offering of these things in turn creates some annoyance for some people, but I doubt that's the intent.
I would much prefer to see more people code out their issues than complain on a mailing list or HN.
Code talks, bullshit walks.