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what's up, it's me, jonny #python developer. #fastAPI has a totally dysfunctional development process where all code has to route through a single point of control. look at the PR velocity on it and all related projects and see how many non-bot PRs have been merged in the past year. that tells the whole story.

it's really just a very simple wrapper around starlette, has a ton of perf bottlenecks that will never be resolved because of said dysfunctional dev process, and if i were starting a new project i would not use any code used by that whole group. there are better options, and we do indeed have to choose to starve the thing eating all the oxygen in the room

it's taken me 9 months to go from reporting an obvious bug to having the 7 lines of code it changed be usurped by a core dev and i dont wanna fight anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3WhcGoSA4

https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/discussions/13380

https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14283#issuecomment-3479009522

GitHub

🐛 Don't pre-fill form parameters with default values in _get_multidict_value by YuriiMotov · Pull Request #14283 · fastapi/fastapi

Credits The author of solution is @sneakers-the-rat. Initial PR: #13464. I just separated these changes from (IMO) unnecessary\unrelated changes, refactored the code a bit and simplified tests to m...

GitHub

[bug] Impossible to have checkbox in form with default True value · fastapi fastapi · Discussion #13380

This has an open PR here: #13464 First Check I added a very descriptive title here. I used the GitHub search to find a similar question and didn't find it. I searched the FastAPI documentation, wit...

so after the almost yearlong process where i added all those tests because another maintainer asked me to add them, this PR does the same changes I made, except for worse, duplicating functionality across the different arms of the if form_input branches so that it's possible for those behaviors to diverge, and excluding the docs that explain the behavior. this is how fastAPI's contribution process works?

edit: i also, after explaining at length why the other changes were necessary for the feature to address the actual problem that was described, removed all the changes you described as unnecessary. and still that wasn't enough? this is really quite something. — so after the almost yearlong process where i added all those tests because another maintainer asked me to add them, this PR does the same changes I made, except for worse, duplicating functionality across the different arms of the if form_input branches so that it's possible for those behaviors to diverge, and excluding the docs that explain the behavior. this is how fastAPI's contribution process works? edit: i also, after explaining at length why the other changes were necessary for the feature to address the actual problem that was described, removed all the changes you described as unnecessary. and still that wasn't enough? this is really quite something.

sneakers-the-rat
on Feb 19
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" i don't want to fight anymore "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3WhcGoSA4 — sneakers-the-rat on Feb 19 Author " i don't want to fight anymore " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3WhcGoSA4

Charles Tapley Hoyt

@cthoyt@scholar.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@jonny i haven't been able to stop thinking about this toot in the last few days. I really like using this stack but the development and governance just doesn't feel right to me.

Partially, this is the tradeoff of being a solo project builder (which I've done, but never with the responsibility of so many users). But your experience is a whole different flavor of questionable :/