I hesitate mostly from criticising #YunoHost as a project because I really like and support it. It's an incredible initiative whose volunteers do very difficult maintenance and education work. And face really absurd bugs and broken parts of technology all the time. And keep going, for years, without structural support.

However, one of the reasons I stopped contributing was due to the prevailing atmosphere of frustration which justifies all sorts of nasty comments.

I think https://github.com/YunoHost/yunohost/commit/8d1c75e732b59846f0799180217417cd3857fbf7 (found while looking for a fix in https://forum.yunohost.org/t/gotosocial-a-fediverse-server-written-in-golang/19160/17) is a good example of this.

Who wants to volunteer in a project where your efforts can be called "shitty" or "batshit stupid"? Or the fact you didn't do a great job at communicating something encoded into a literal comment and git commit in the codebase?

I mean, in this case, maybe the author is referring to their own code but it's also not the point. If anyone looks at this, it is not exactly an image of a supportive volunteer project.

I remember getting hurtful comments about honest mistakes I had made when maintaining apps. It's hard to change the atmosphere when other volunteers don't find this an important thing to change.

I don't know how the YunoHost team is doing now but this all reminds me of other male dominated technology spaces.

I think the project can do better.