@aeva “today we are in the town of Westervaarderlingegaard, in the middle of an unpronounceable province of what we think is Belgium, where we’ll meet the person behind libxml2-ng infamy.

When we tried to contact them we were told in no uncertain terms ‘pull request or GTFO’, just like last week’s episode. See what happens when we try to talk to this person after the commercial break!”

@aeva Big Brother: The Open Source Software Edition.

"Can our contestants maintain these vital repos of Open Source Software with enough vigilance to prevent Big Brother from sneaking in a backdoor? Tune in, right after these messages!"

@aeva Cut to a shot of @bagder triaging a pile of nonsensical curl CVEs and weird emails blaming him for software that embeds libcurl 😅

Honestly I think a reality TV show where people saw more of what maintainers have to deal with would be great for building empathy for maintainers and the enormous amount of emotional labor they're putting in all the time