I feel you, as I have tremendous respect and appreciation to open-source maintainers.
Nevertheless, I think most developers already "review", critique, and share their opinion of open-source libraries loud and proud. They just don't have a dedicated platform to do that.
Like most developers, I've been using dozens of open-source libraries, it's natural that I'll form some sort of opinion about them. If I'm like most developers, I'll even have some very strongly held opinions and preferences.
I will like some packages, and hate others. I'll find some documentation great, and other unreadable. I will insist one project is complex, and the other is easy to use. That's all fine.
IMHO, the fact that a piece of software was created for free, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to express my experience and opinions about that software, good or bad.
With Openbase, we just want to give developers the ability to easily learn from the experience of other developers, and share their own experience with various libraries.
I'm curious about whether your project would make more events like what happened with the rust actix-web library.
Short story if you're not aware: It is the fastest web library out there, but the maintainer quit open source entirely. I fear projects like yours would just make it worse.
This may sound harsh: your rebuttal doesn't really address the issue it just tries to justify 'live with it'
Nevertheless, I think most developers already "review", critique, and share their opinion of open-source libraries loud and proud. They just don't have a dedicated platform to do that.
Like most developers, I've been using dozens of open-source libraries, it's natural that I'll form some sort of opinion about them. If I'm like most developers, I'll even have some very strongly held opinions and preferences.
I will like some packages, and hate others. I'll find some documentation great, and other unreadable. I will insist one project is complex, and the other is easy to use. That's all fine.
IMHO, the fact that a piece of software was created for free, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to express my experience and opinions about that software, good or bad. With Openbase, we just want to give developers the ability to easily learn from the experience of other developers, and share their own experience with various libraries.