Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability : technology

[-] Zo0@feddit.de 50 points 6 months ago

I recently found out one my favourite FOSS projects was abandoned due to bullying. It was a small project and very fresh so it obviously came with some bugs and issues which is a given. The maintainer gave up only few months after because of all the negativity.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Which projects?

[-] Zo0@feddit.de 32 points 6 months ago

The latest one was LSPatch. Did so much for me. Last message from the maintainer was something along the lines of 'Seems like people are not happy with the project so I'm dropping it'.

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

I don't even know what that is and I want to thank them for the project...

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

at the moment we have to accept we can't please everyone. if people bully maintainers, they can gtfo and fork. same if you get bullied by maintainers, just fork and forget. maybe join with likeminded people if it's too much work.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Are there any moderation tools or groups offering moderation support for projects?

[+] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Looking at your comment history, I can't tell if you're a troll or just a moron.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

They're not mutually exclusive.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

True!

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Get bent

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

You fucking fix it.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meredith Whitaker, the president of Signal, said “I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS [free and open source software culture of shitty behavior and abuse.”

“What is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, and that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.”

Emphasis mine.

A software economy based around sharing and openness is not compatible with whatever the fuck you want it to be. If you want decent, secure software, provided for free, then be a decent human.

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