What to use instead of nntplib?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 30 20:06:41 EDT 2023


On 31/05/23 8:44 am, aapost wrote:
> Even if I did partake in the modern github style of code distribution, 
> how many packages have issues where the "maintainers" inherited the 
> package and really haven't dug deep enough in to the code to see how it 
> really works. They have issues that sit around for YEARS, and when 
> someone says "this sucks, this is broken and could be better", and the 
> githubian response is typically a dismissive "Nothing is stopping you 
> from making a PR".

Also, "nothing is stopping you from making a fork." Which is what
you would have to do in the face of inactive maintainers regardless
of where or how the project was hosted. This is not a github problem
or a big-corporation problem, it's a people problem.

-- 
Greg


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