I *think* this particular situation hit v. close to home this time. Dominic's modus operandi is really similar to mine, and many others. Feel it really is mostly chance it's him that this has happened to.
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Like: we're talking about a human that's been giving away their work away for free for the better part of a decade. Write access to 423 modules means that's been ~90 modules a year for 5 yrs. Or about a new module published every ~4 days. That's a scale most people don't know.
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For people to come in, and make claims how "they had a popular project once, and did X" is completely missing the point. Imagine not having "a popular project once". But having written a bunch of projects 5 years ago that now have ~a million downloads a month each.
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Do you still care about some random code you wrote 5 years ago? Probably not. Would you unpublish that code / archive that code if it's being used? Probably not. If someone stepped up and offered to maintain that code, would that be welcome? Most likely, yes.
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In an ideal world there'd companies throwing people at these problems, and ensuring that their foundations are secured. So we could create a process in which we vet the people who are best suited for the job. In practice we tend to accept the help that's available. And gladly so
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in this case the person had even contributed a decent amount I'm sure I'd have done *exactly* the same thing. I've done it in the past -- the reason some of my open source projects are doing so well is because I try to bring on new maintainers early and often.
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