“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons”

davel · 9 months ago

“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons”

erwan · 9 months ago

The point is that saying “pull requests welcome” is still work for the maintainer, because now you have to have these discussions with potential contributors, sometimes explain them why you don’t want to maintain the feature, or explain them why this PR is not the way you want…

So either way it’s work, it’s important to keep in mind before saying “just send a PR”.

“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons”

“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons”

Carol (Nichols || Goulding) ꙮ (@carol@crabby.fyi)