So it seems the Pidgin IM project is run by a bunch of jerks. Read here:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986
A summary:
- Entry box in 2.4.0 is made to be auto-resizing
- Users hate it, and file bugs saying they want manual resizing back
- Developers indicate they have no intention of fixing it
- Users get angry
- Developers get pissy, and indicate that any changes submitted will be rejected
- Project is forked
It’s obvious from some of the comments that the users are at times going a little overboard, but there’s no excuse for the developer response (which, to date, has been “It’s our project, nyah!”).
To all developers: these are your users. Without them you are nothing. If they say the “feature” is crap, it’s crap. People who make software for money, by and large, get this point, lest they finally learn their lesson when they’re out of a job. One can only hope that by removing this motivation for Open Source projects, they have not doomed themselves to a future of of irrelevancy.
Remember kids: ideological purity is for philosophy students. Everything in reality is a compromise between an ideal design and what actually works.
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