When a company sponsors your Open Source project with appreciated services worth several thousand USD/month, it would be *reckless* and *irresponsible* to turn them down without viable alternatives. We don't exactly drown in alternative sponsors throwing money at us.
A large set of CI jobs running half a million test cases really does wonders for a project's quality. This benefits every single user out there much more than what saying no and relocating elsewhere would do.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •If it helps, I (being heavily involved with Codeberg, which was suggested/pushed by people in the thread) totally understand this and I feel like I have to apologize for you having felt the need to make a public statement about this – people can be overeager sometimes. 😅
Thank you for your work.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Ah, OK! Sorry "for making this about us" 😅
There have been cases of people being very overzealous to the point where they would publicly question maintainers' moral integrity (which is apparently not a convincing outreach strategy! /s) or technical capabilities and that was like... very bad conduct towards other FOSS maintainers, and it also holds back the people that actually do the work. (So that's why I assumed something similar might be happening.)