OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/09/2016 09:11 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>
> My email is inevitably met not with acceptance, nor with constructive
> discussion, but with some attempt to derail the entire enterprise. Here
> are some real examples, paraphrased by yours truly:
>
>      I think it should be done some other way, even though the other way
> obviously doesn’t work for you and so far nobody has ever been found who
> is willing to implement it that way
>      I don’t want to solve this problem without also solving [unrelated
> problem X], your proposal doesn’t address [unrelated problem X],
> therefore I am inclined to reject it
>      I don’t know you and there might be a bug in your patch. This patch
> is too important to leave to somebody new. At the same time it is not
> important enough for any of the core committers to get to it.
>      Defend this proposal. You’re telling me you “need” encryption in an
> internet communications library, or you “need” unicode support in an
> object storage library. I don’t believe you. We’ve gotten along just
> fine for N months without it, and we’ll get along for another 2N months
> just fine thanks.
>      Look, we’ve already implemented [sort-of related feature] even
> though it’s buggy and doesn’t cover your usecase. That decision was
> complicated and people were arguing about it for years and I really
> don’t want to go through that jungle again. If you wanted to do it this
> way you should have spoken up two years ago.
>

Unfortunately, that sounds very similar to experiences I've had here in 
D-land :( Gets very frustrating.