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The attitude and culture go back at least a decade. Well before the recent round of criticisms.

It started somewhere near the top, and the culture's settled in. I've written off the project a long time back.

FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well.

> FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well.

So why did you go after him?

(I realize that by "a developer" you meant yourself, not Felipe. I still consider this a fair question.)

I meant Christian Perch, the other story about GNOME Bugzilla. I'm not a developer. I didn't go after Felipe.

Ah, ok. I somehow got the impression from your comments that you were the Olav mentioned in the blog post.

> Bottom line: These people, [whether] they are arrogant, impolite or unsympathetic to users does not refute the fact that they are giving their time to the project.

> GNOME has been under fire since the famous GNOME 3 release and I would understand the remaining developers to be a little touchy on the matter. At some point, you either stop - or you decide: Fuck this - I will just ignore user-input, because it sucks.

To put it bluntly: if they've given up on making what users want, what's so special about their giving their time to the project?

Why should anyone care, other than for fear that the developers will continue to make things even worse?