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I don't like the drama about this. It really is not what being a maintainer should be about.

Open source developers need to learn how to be professional.

We can complain all day about packages that don't get recognition, where the maintainer struggles to maintain it and then we wonder, where's the professionalism?

Enable your 2FA. Allow users to support you financially (support agreement, etc).

> I do not chose to create a “critical” package

To the winner, the spoils. Fame has a cost. Drop your package and ask someone else to maintain it if you can't.




> Open source developers need to learn how to be professional.

No, professionals need to be professional. Some FOSS devs are professionals and should act like it, but many FOSS devs are just hacking around in their spare time and don't owe anyone anything; certainly they're under no obligation to be "professional" with their side projects.


Yes, nobody needs to be a professional, and nobody has to brush their teeth in the morning neither

Feel free to not publish through PyPi either

"Maintainers" who can't be bothered to activate 2FA make me lose trust in their code quality.




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