Oh come on, someone asked you a technical question - you can't expect everyone to research the country of origin, country of residence, and perhaps a personal situation of every private person, developer, or a company before emailing them.
> One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply.
Innocently asking the question seems fine; as you say we generally don't know the personal circumstances of online contacts. But once appraised of it a quick reply would be human, at least to the effect of "good luck, keep as safe as possible & please ignore my question until happier times are restored"
Then why not cache the response and just put a banner on the project giving people context, instead of individually half answering the technical questions with a rhetorical question?
thombat|4 years ago
> One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply.
Innocently asking the question seems fine; as you say we generally don't know the personal circumstances of online contacts. But once appraised of it a quick reply would be human, at least to the effect of "good luck, keep as safe as possible & please ignore my question until happier times are restored"
zeroping|4 years ago
alephnan|4 years ago