[jeamland]

The only thing that could've been done better was realizing that there wasn't a way to fix it earlier. The story was more told as to give an idea of the kinds of things a community can face.

The migration to Subversion was given as a case where core could've made a decision and given direction but chose not to. Whether they're right or not is a whole separate set of arguments.

I think everyone would be happier if Gamergate had never been a thing.

The trouble with FreeBSD, as stated, is that like a whole lot of other community projects it's largely volunteer and its leadership is 100% volunteer. If we had more mindshare we might have more volunteers but then we'd need leadership to be more active.