Gert van DijkLasse Collin in commit message: “The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.” 😆
#jiatan #xz
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4
Also #jiatan in #xz: No need to create a PR, we usually cherry-pick and *edit your commits* preserving you as the author. 😏
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/18#issuecomment-1994829182
mathieui@gertvdijk this commit is even better https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/780cbf29d5a88db2b546e9b7b019c4c33ca72685
raboof@mathieui @gertvdijk I am very glad to see they appear to have their sense of perspective and humor intact!
ollibaba@gertvdijk Also, removing them from the "THANKS" file! Maybe should add a NO_THANKS file instead? ;-)
jay@gertvdijk I hope we don't see a Rise of Skywalker style "Somehow JiaTan returned" commit in a few years
stux⚡️@gertvdijk I still am very curious though what team was behind it all 
Riley S. Faelan@gertvdijk I would publicly state that I'm not honouring any of Jia Tan's copyrights or authorship on xz-utils, and challenge them to sue me if they want such a state of affairs to change.
spv@riley @gertvdijk so we can find their real name through the courts! brilliant!
@spv Or they will not get any credit. (We might need to heap praise upon how elegant the backdoor was in order to entice them to want that credit.)
@riley brb, boutta spam the internet with llm-generated jiatan-stan-spam so scammers scan the internet and think it's a popular opinion and it becomes accepted in the public consciousness
fuck did i just invent disinformation campaigns again
kolya@gertvdijk sounds a bit wistful for the days when a state sponsored actor helped with maintenance
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦@gertvdijk @jwz I feel bad for Lasse Collin. Needed help, was taken advantage of, but still stepped up to deal with the fallout. We should all appreciate that dedication🙏
njsg@gertvdijk I've chuckled reading yesterday's NEWS changes [1] for v5.6.1: "This fixed bugs in the backdoor" :-)
[1] https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=780cbf29d5a88db2b546e9b7b019c4c33ca72685
qerupasy@gertvdijk Good to see that he has his GitHub back.
Javier Jimenez Shaw@gertvdijk
This commit message is also good: "Backdoors are bad for security."
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/e93e13c8b3bec925c56e0c0b675d8000a0f7f754
Samantaz Fox@gertvdijk This other commit to the changelog is really fun, too:
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/780cbf29d5a88db2b546e9b7b019c4c33ca72685
vxo
tessie 
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Eric Zhang