alt Hacker NewsThese guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project.
https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...
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(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.
Hardly seems worth the pitchforks.
shouldn't we hold back with allegations while there's a non-0 chance this is just a user wishing their other services were supported too?
Looks like the account in question is deleted now - do you have the original username?
Disclosure would be nice but 11-12 issues in entire GitHub is hardly spam.
Tell you what though, thank you for providing such a comprehensive list of cool projects to nerdsnipe me on a sunday morning!
The person doing this doesn't understand how pull requests work. The issues all say "I have a version in my fork". Open a pull request then! That's the whole point of forks on GitHub. Creating an issue first is pointless spamming akin to the classic "asking to ask". Just seems completely out of touch with open source to me.
It's not spam if it's the first time I heard of it and it's useful. It shows they care about their project. This makes me want to try it out even more.
Meta and Google can spam their unsolicited ads to a billion users but regular people aren't allowed to promote their own projects on niche forums? This is bs. You're the problem here. Self-promoting your harmful values. You're the spammer.
It's evidence of bad abstraction if you need everyone else to make changes and couple themselves directly to you.
If for some reason your services can't speak an already common language, I think it's on you to add those shims into your own project.