On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:15 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I wanted to avoid was something I encountered on the GCC mailing > list: When I asked why GCJ was removed, I was told that it was hard to > maintain. When I asked for an example of past maintenance issues (and > made it clear I had no interest in disputing whether the issues were > valid or not) I received no reply from the maintainer except his > original answer, leaving me to wonder whether GCJ was actually hard to > maintain. > > I have seen similar exchanges associated with other projects.
When you have no standing in the project, there's little incentive to justify one's actions and decisions to you.