[lenerdenator]

> It just sounds like the Mandriva maintainers are trusting and good folk who may be overworked running an open source project and that led to a bad apple entering the bunch. It's hard for me to be mad in that kind of situation.

It's hard to be mad, but people in FLOSS need to start taking this sort of cautionary tale to heart, particularly when it comes to Linux distros.

If you don't have a good way to sustain maintenance and development of a software project in the current era - one with LLM spam, social engineering, and apparently, jackass contributors - you need to start looking into ways to wrap the project up and focus your energies on more established projects that might need help.

I know that sounds mean, but this isn't just a hobby project anymore. This is an operating system. People put their entire lives on their computers. It's not a failure, you can do everything right and end up in a situation like we see here.

[account42]

People don't need to do anything when they are volunteering their free time - they can run a distro that is not up to your standards if they want to.

[lenerdenator]

Then I don't want to hear sob stories about how someone nuked half of the public repo, or how someone managed to put a backdoor in some low-level dependency that half of the world's servers rely on. I also don't want them to expect to be taken seriously, either.

It's not the 00s anymore. You are not special if you can post code that compiles to a central repository where people can duplicate and modify it. There are entire colleges in most developed nations that have 18-year-olds who can do the same thing now. The key to being taken seriously is figuring out how to do that sustainably and responsibly.

[phantompeace]

Why did you consciously click into this article and comments section if you don't want to hear about it? You're free to scroll on at any time.