Question: Should people that have committed a crime, or are social pariah not be allowed to commit code to projects that are funded by entities you care about? Or have technical roles in such projects?
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Replying to @_unfuckyou_ @sarahmei
Or seen the other way - should organizations refrain from e.g. code hosting for public code that is partially written by such people?
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Replying to @_unfuckyou_ @sarahmei
If you do think this, does this extend to orgs? I.e. should Linux never have allowed SE Linux and other patches from the NSA, given their track record?
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Sarah Mei Retweeted Sarah Mei
It’s about leadership roles.https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1177647111166291968?s=21 …
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Well, my questions still apply, if the leadership role is strictly tech lead, not managing people. So, i'd still like you to answer them!
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Replying to @_unfuckyou_ @sarahmei
"Head of project" by its nature includes managing people? Any programming above junior level involves a lot of communication with people; there are no "strictly tech" roles.
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The difference is whether you have control over their lives in any way, or only the code they submit. If no money is involved, only code and emails, things are by necessity different. Yes, I work in the field, and I am involved in FOSS projects.
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Both situations are a problem. I also work in the field, and have been involved in (in one case co-founded) FOSS projects.
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Well, then you are effectively asking shitty people who are good at code, to go fork the code? Because it's not like you can stop them from writing good code (that others will want to use)?
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We are asking for "shitty people" (your phrase) not to be in leadership positions.
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Which leads to the forking. Code does not work like organizations. Esp not FOSS code, by design, can not be taken ownership of this way. Yes, you can compete on being better at the code, but that's it. Unless you just want to burn it all down (that's also a possibility I guess).
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