[teriyaki]

I've reached the end of my patience.

With several thousand hours of work for this, and waited three weeks for a single PR (24148 (PR)) to fix some issues of this feature, this is what I got:

 

At the end it is your decision, but please don’t expect my approval for this PR in this state.

 

Am I begging for merging a PR? Do I need mercy from Kodi team to contribute? Do I own Kodi team anything, so I need to be treated like this? I really wanted to contribute to Kodi, as it's a very useful software. I even ignored this classic "f**k off" reply to me from a Kodi team member during a technical discussion for this feature (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/14972#...1375140477):

 

f**k off, and don't waste our time.

 

As a top IT company employee for nearly two decades, I'v never been insulted like this. With constantly insulating I received for my contribution, I'm really tired:

 

Looking at this PR, I’m honestly asking myself why we need a shitload of new video database functionality to fix a simple refresh of data.

 

Enough is enough!

It's a pity to waste several thousand hours of work for a feature that many people want. But without even basic respect for me, it's meaningless to have this feature at all.

Kodi team, please keep your dignity, delete all of my code from your code base, and never use my code and ideas for this feature in your code base.

It's really, really sad to see this happening. This is not the first time that I think Kodi would need a person dedicated to managing relationship with up and coming developers. I don't understand if the insult has been deleted but using the provided link does not show it. Whoever wrote that should excuse themselves to xodidox, as I don't think that is conducive to new developers being attracted to the project nor that it is in any way aligned to what the overall spirit of Kodi development has been throughout the years.

I don't know who xodidox was quoting and what prompted the offensive responses but regardless it's a bad look for Kodi. How many times have we heard Kodi developers are thinly numbered unpaid volunteers, and more help is welcome? Seeing newcomers being treated that way is not an attractive quality making people want to become part of the team. Most people don't know the full story, nor will they care, nor should they; Everyone's capable of acting like adults with baseline mutual respect for one another. You don't have to be best friends or agree on everything but be civil, if not for `yourself` then the greater good of the entire Kodi community. It would be great if after a cooling off, whatever this conflict was can be left in the rear view and interested new developers aren't turned off and given reason to not bother.

I agree Ashlar, it's really really sad to see when things like this happen...