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This is a simple Service Locator for Dart and Flutter projects with some additional goodies highly inspired by Splat. It can be used instead of InheritedWidget or Provider to access objects e.g. from your UI.

I read through the PR discussion in question as part of reading Rob Mensching's post before I came across this discussion, and thought that she'd overstepped. However, after watching Tim Corey go through the same discussion, I realise that not only did she overstep, she appeared to actively (and publicly) fight with the current maintainer. Her actions appear (to me) to be completely arrogant, selfish, uncaring, and frankly dangerous to the project.

Head of .NET Foundation creates and merges a PR for a change they made to a project where they hadn't been active for several years. When confronted by current maintainers, their response was at the very least, hostile and poorly thought out.

Many projects joined the .NET Foundation after it was created. It didn't really do anything, but it wasn't harming anyone either.

The .NET Foundation asked for owner access on a repository (for their CLA bot). The author declined and a workaround was organized.

Years later the .NET Foundation asked for owner access on a repository (to allow them enforce Code of Conduct across all repositories. The author declined.

The CLA bot stopped working. The author was told it would work if he gave it owner access. The author was annoyed because they previously had a workaround. They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access.

The author woke up and realized that the project had now been silently moved to GitHub Enterprise. The author states that projects in GitHub Enterprise can be entirely controlled by the owner of the account (the .NET Foundation). This transfer happened silently.

Independently, this happened to another project (who had coincidentally had an issue with a Microsoft employee and former contributor force a pull-request into their project: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/778).

People are upset because of how tone-deaf all of this is. They would like the .NET Foundation to stop trying to gain complete control over the member projects. They would like Microsoft employees to not force pull requests into their projects.

> I am not versed in all the details here

You should probably read the conversation in the PR: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/778

> there is a dire need for professional communications training among these programmers.

Maybe, but probably not why you think.

Once you've read the PR's conversation you'll see this isn't about someone just merging a PR which wasn't approved. This about someone submitting a PR, a maintainer asking for discussion before merging it, ignoring the maintainer and just merge the PR, the maintainer asking why it wasn't discussed and then making a snide remark to the maintainer.

So I agree that the "Sorry for merging a PR" isn't going to cut it here. The merging of the PR was the least of the problem. It's a hollow corporate-style apology where someone is allowed to be called out for. It's like saying: "Sorry I hurt your toe" after you pushed someone of a cliff.

Library inspired by Splat from the React world again. Library is not so popular like previous and maintenance is also a little lower.

Are you sure you want Microsoft in particular to step in? https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39

Indeed, by criteria of community drama, .NET is also too immature for use. See [1], as the conclusion of that.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/40

I've heard this so many times within the last 10 years, and it's always after they've done something really stupid. At least in the FOSS realm, regarding microsoft, people are just so naive it's laughable. Like here where everyone is responding by pretty much saying "oh, it seems I've signed my rights away. I sure hope Microsoft doesn't abuse this in the future" ... I stopped feeling bad after reading responses.

Part of the drama: https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39 Many things before were on twitter.