[jzelinskie]

>I'm sure there must be some other very senior FB developers who created React before he arrived who might not be so happy.

You might find that not everybody wants to be the face of something. It can be very stressful and people often dehumanize you in their communications as they associate you and the project as the same thing. Think of all the trouble that Lennart Poettering has dealt with as a result of the pushback to systemd.

[icc97]

Yes, a double-edged sword. It's to the credit of the React developers that they've welcomed him. I was just curious as to how the internal politics work there.

[danabramov]

People on the team who like to have presence on social media do that. People who don't like it that much, don't. I don't see much politics in this but maybe I'm missing something.

[icc97]

My apologies, I'm guess I'm just too used to seeing internal politics everywhere.

[Rapzid]

It's an interesting day when Github issues on an official project are considered "social media". I think that can be taken many ways and most of them interesting to ponder.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes, but then again, the whole selling point of Github is that it's social media attached to git repositories. That's the reason it's the open source code dumping ground.