洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social

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

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Improve the docs · Issue #59 · dahlia/optique

Add tutorials in docs. I waste about 5 minutes to read the docs and I still do not understand what is the best idiomatic way to implement a nested commands from an Optique perspective. Show use cas...

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Nathan 🌻
@natpbs@mathstodon.xyz · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

@hongminhee what a cool project! sorry you had to read that :/

In general, I find it pretty distasteful to expect to be "win over" by a project, as if they're doing you a favour by considering using the code you worked on and freely provided. (This is very different from saying 'this could be more convenient to me and probably others' btw). The racism only makes it worse.