> no one -- especially corporate users -- gets to complain
Do corporate users of open source really do all that much complaining without contributing? IME the people with the biggest complaint/contribution ratio in open source projects are individual devs (or trolls) who are not participating as a representative of any company.
In the case of core-js the issue isn't that "nobody is contributing", the issue is that there is one guy with commit authority and he's an asshole who reportedly spends most of his days rejecting PRs from people he doesn't like.
IBM, Oracle, Apple, Microsoft could submit all the PRs in the world and it won't do any good if he says "I don't like your coding style" or "this takes core-js in a direction I don't like."
But...and bear with me as I'm no JS guy and am unfamiliar with that library...how hard is it for the community to fork it and go on from there?
Literally every time I find an esoteric library on Github the first thing I do before forking it or adding it to my dependencies is immediately pull up the "network" tab to see if there's are active branch downstream I should follow.
Perhaps Github can do a better job of highlighting hidden downstream forks to direct people to find more updated and supported dependencies?
can't the governance structure of NPM remove and reassign the NPMish "ownership" and authoritative repo to a new fork in circumstances like the maintainer abandoning it, going to jail, being a dumbass or whatever? If NPM is the authority, it's their own rules that would allow/disallow it, right?
(note: I'm unfamiliar with this project, so seriously I'm asking if/why this is an issue)
Why does that make him an asshole? It's his project, he's free to do as he pleases with it. Even my very modest open source projects sometimes get people demanding I fix or change something. It's ridiculous. It's like there's this unspoken expectation that all available software rise to meet all needs.
Do corporate users of open source really do all that much complaining without contributing? IME the people with the biggest complaint/contribution ratio in open source projects are individual devs (or trolls) who are not participating as a representative of any company.