AOaoetalks·Dec 25, 2021
A PR reverting this is already approved and merged:
https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/pull/1
Thanks, 3np
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| Dec 25, 14:00 | 2021-12-25 14:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-25 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 25, 15:00 | 2021-12-25 15:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-25 16:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesSo sure, this is far from a good look. But the verdict is still out on if it is an unfortunate mistake or malicious.
It's far from the first time I see this kind of reaction and, IMO, rather than everyone spending time on piling on the flamewar, how about opening the door for MS to set this straight and do the right thing? Assume good faith even if you personally don't sincerely believe it? Give them an easy way to save face and present a plausible narrative rather than having everyone dig their trenches deeper? If you'd prefer MS not to screw people over, it helps no one to solidify them in doing just that.
Already so many people shouting "YOU ARE THE DEVIL", not one going "hey, looks like this is a mistake, let's sort it out". IMO the latter is more constructive. It's almost as if people want Microsoft to do bad things. Remember it's a
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huge organization with all kinds of people and ideologies internally. It's too early to tell which way the individual behind this particular change is leaning.
It took me all of 1-2 minutes to make this PR[0], probably less than any of the meme pictures in that commit thread. Let's see how it goes. Last time it went through[1].
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/pull/1
[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
EDIT: ...And, it's merged. I'm assuming the rest of the affected repos will be fixed as well and an apologetic blog post issued by Monday. Anyone who feels that's too long time can always open corresponding PRs instead of wasting their time by replying to this with how that's not our job. Happy holidays.
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