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.
from now on, every beleaguered solo #FOSS maintainer should rebut each and every nasty, inhumane pressure campaign by referencing this attack on #xz:
« Nothing is so urgent that it cannot be done safely. Articulate substantive technical issues in an issue; then take a number, and remove such unconstructive personal invective to more appropriate forums than this project's mailing list or issue tracker. »
i would further amend my Code of Conduct to prohibit disparagement of a maintainer's "productivity":
« This project honors the legacy of #LasseCollin and the #xz infiltration. Manufactured urgency criticizing a maintainer's throughput, dedication, or competency to keep pace with specious "community demands" will be regarded as hostile social engineering, and harshly sanctioned (permabanned). »
Jerry 🦙💝🦙
Jobu Tupaki