Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project

https://lemmy.nz/post/35540688

Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project - Lemmy NZ

Lemmy

Honestly the damage is done. Manjaro has been an instant no from me dog for a long time. The name carries a negative connotation. Trust has eroded.
What happened?
Plenty of things, but the most obvious being the two separate instances they had issues with renewing their certs.

Could you please explain why not renewing their certs is such a serious betrayal? Like, if they fixed it, isn’t that okay? And even if it happened again, and they fixed it again, isn’t it human to err? Or why is it such a harsh offense?

Serious question, I don’t know the consequences of not renewing these certs. 😊

It’s the tls certificate that proves your website is legit. Without which, you can potentially be a malicious actor that can pose as the website, and when you download the iso, you could unknowingly download something malicious. It’s pretty hard to forget certificate renewal (most of the time there are plenty of reminders sent and warnings given), so the fact that it happened twice was very impressively bad.

It’s pretty hard to forget certificate renewal (most of the time there are plenty of reminders sent and warnings given)

Oh boy. Seems to be the opposite in real life. Especially when it comes to managing stored cert of businesses partners. It has gotten somewhat better now of course, but three years ago most of my company’s sev1 production issues were due to lapsing or unscheduled cert changes.

Can confirm it happens often here too indeed.