A good system to download and migrate issues and pull requests is important, but that doesn't require federation.

I would love to see a smaller scoped federation of:

  - Forks across instances, including for the purpose of PRs (Git)
  - Activity feeds and notifications (Activity or ATproto)
  - Authentication and some user settings (OAuth)

> For technical reasons, there is not one “absolute” figure for the average tariffs on EU-US trade, as this calculation can be done in a variety of ways which produce quite varied results. Nevertheless, considering the actual trade in goods between the EU and US, in practice the average tariff rate on both sides is approximately 1%. In 2023, the US collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU exports, and the EU collected approximately €3 billion on US exports.

Regarding angles, users want to see degrees in the UI, but the python functions like math.sin and math.cos and basically any other graphics code you find uses radians. Whatever solution is chosen is always going to make someone unhappy.

Regarding hotkeys, there were some major changes for 2.5 along with other UI changes, but after that the default have barely changed, just additions and minor changes when the underlying features change.

Making hotkeys remappable was in no way a solution to that "problem", it's a standard feature in other 3D software that a lot of users requested, especially those who wanted to make the hotkeys compatible with Maya and 3ds Max.

The state of the art keeps improving but I've never heard any call the switch to forward path tracing a painful disaster, quite the opposite.

Yes, REYES is great at subpixel shading, rendering fast motion blur, using brickmaps with indirect light, and using very little memory for detailed displacement. But with RIS all those things are gone. PRMan's implementation might still be more efficient, I don't know, but with the switch to path tracing they are definitely giving up various advantages that REYES had.

It's just that if someone speaks to me in that tone, regardless if this is an open source project or if I'm working customer service for a product, I'll still think they're acting like an ass. It's not a huge deal, people act like asses all the time, but why not just raise the issue in a friendly manner?

So I call them out and close or delete the issue, and if they get frustrated because of that, great! This doesn't mean I won't fix the issue eventually, just on my own terms without giving that person the satisfaction. Makes me feel a lot better.