What is wrong with narf ?

narf has been maintaining CI for a long time, often with little or no help and probably, for a great deal of that time, with little or no idea of what the future held for CI. More often than not he is simply terse and doesn't take the time to explain himself, which, in most cases, is not an issue in itself. Occasionally people take offense to this (especially those unfamiliar with him), which sometimes leads to flame wars, in which he is clearly not afraid to take part.

None of this means he should be banned from the development team. At most, it is a reason, if resources permit, to have someone with better public relations skills filter the GitHub issues before he gets to them. The fact that CodeIgniter is still around is evidence enough that he isn't going to be the end of CodeIgniter on his own.

Honestly, if you opened a support ticket on some issue trackers for much larger projects than CodeIgniter, you'd probably get far worse a reaction than anything you've seen from narf.

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