may you and the people relying on you never have to rely on the maintainers taking things more seriously than they've shown themselves to in their public positioning
HTMX has existed for nearly a decade (prev. intercoolerjs); 1cg has proven to be extremely invested in it, and the whole philosophy around it in general (even being in charge of an "Hypermedia Research Group" at Montana university). To dismiss all of the credibility he has created with his work just because the guy wants to be funny on twitter is nothing short of stupid.
This appears to be the official account, not a personal one. If he wants me to take htmx seriously as a prod dependency, I care about how he treats it, all the way from code to governance to community interactions.
He has no such obligation to do these things, this is all his choice. I'm not sure why the contention? If you read my comment, it was strictly about production scenarios, not about all credibility for all scenarios. If this project is meant to be treated as fun CRAPL, Matthew Might made a great license for that: https://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/ .
I apologize for the contention - I misunderstood what your point was which made my writing a little too aggressive.
I still hold the position that the social media presence of the project should be inconsequential for considering it's production usage. But I can see your point now, even if I disagree.
I see your point but I let the technology do the talking. People focus on personalities but the work is what matters to me. I used to get annoyed at DHH but then I just ignored it and built stuff really fast.
1. They are the maintainers of htmx, not the maintainers of your code. There is no contract with them.
2. The joke made by the maintainer gives absolutely no insight into how they will behave if there were a contract. If anything, that might mean the maintainer actually is a human that is agreeable to talk and work with, because they don't take it so seriously as to forbid any jokes.
Professionalism doesn't mean "no jokes allowed", it means "do your best".
