After 5 years of foot-dragging they finally close the ticket to community protest:
This feature request is being closed as our current focus isn’t in this area.
We appreciate your input and contribution to improving our product. While this feature may have merit, we need to prioritize our efforts elsewhere at this time.
If you’d like to provide additional context about why this feature is important, please feel free to leave a comment on this issue. This will help us better evaluate the feature if we revisit this area in the future.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support in helping us build a better product.
As one of the core contributors for even a moderately sized project on Github: HELL NO.
We already get more than enough drive by spam from everyone who just makes an account to complain that our code doesn’t do something we never said it did. And if they don’t even have to do that? Ugh.
I do firmly believe that more projects need to understand the implications of where they host something (similar to the IOS app that alerts you if ICE is in your area). But if someone can’t be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn’t have been worth our limited time anyway.
You don’t know that, because you’ve never once heard what someone didn’t say. Their time is limited too.
Oh, sure, and the spam box in my email might actually have a valuable offer for me!
“May federate” doesn’t necessarily mean “must federate.” Your concerns could be met if they include the standard kill switch in gitlab.rb .
(Now show me the kill switch for the bloated crappy web editor)
You don’t have to federate if you don’t want to.
Then I sign up and verify my email just to find out I need to be approved by an admin. An admin never approves me. I just wasted my time
Hey, you got a free e-mail account!