Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

@hongminhee Pretty awful, sorry you have to deal with that!

Kudos on how well you handled it!

@hongminhee And like as if Chinese devs have some fundamental differences than "a programmer out of this community" 🤣

@hongminhee This is so unacceptable and unneeded, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.