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[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

article title was in the writer's pocket 2 years ago

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

jesus the ruby cult was fucking painful

similar to the ai cult now, "look i'm coding in pseudo english"

puke

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] paradisebuddy@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago

Collaborators (10yrs+) on certain projects that now fall under Ruby Central GitHub repository had their access revoked. I think the Ruby Central org says they didn't implement security protocols or governance in place in time, while one maintainer said it might have to do with big companies threatening to stop funding...

Last paragraph is meta, but the whole story falls into this category of drama:

“When people really care, they're passionate and they're enthusiastic and they argue, and that often looks like drama,” McQuaid, the developer of Homebrew, said when I asked what he thinks this entire affair says about the state of open source development. “But if I had to pick between having the enthusiasm and the drama or losing both, then I'd probably pick the enthusiasm and the drama, because in some ways, the system is somewhat self correcting. Even the stuff that's going on right now, people are having essentially a very public debate about what role do large companies or nonprofits or individual maintainers have in open source. To what extent does someone's level of contribution matter versus what type of person they are? I think these are valuable discussions to be having, and we're having them in the open, whereas if it was in a company, this would all be in a meeting room or with an HR department or in a leadership offsite or whatever.”