Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 30, 2024

I can’t tell you how angry this makes me feel for this maintainer.

I don’t know who Jigar Kumar is, or what the motivation was behind the emails that the author is referencing, but I can tell you if I was trying to get a bad actor in as a trusted developer, this is how I would approach it.

Good post.

https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects | RobMensching.com

Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

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@jerry Saying no is part of the gig as a manager, important as an IC, but damn if it's not a superpower as an OSS maintainer.

(personally, I'm a huge fan of sending the GitHub docs on how to fork a repo, but I guess I can be a jerk sometimes)

Mar 30, 2024 at 6:58pmWeb