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Another interesting data point: about 2 years ago there was a clear pressure campaign to name a new maintainer: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.or
by returningfory2 2y ago
Another interesting data point: about 2 years ago there was a clear pressure campaign to name a new maintainer: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00566.html https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00566.h...
At the time I thought it was just rude, but maybe this is when it all started.
- leosanchez 2y agoHow many people are involved in this ?
- masklinn 2y agoCould be just a single person with a bunch of identities.
- IshKebab 2y agoI would put money on government hackers. They're the sort of people that have the time to pull something like this off. Frankly I'm really surprised it isn't more common, though maybe it is and these guys were just super blatant. I would have expected more plausible deniability.
- JaDogg 2y agoGood cop bad cop play maybe.
- jamespo 2y ago"Jigar Kumar" seems to have disappeared
- Nathanba 2y agotrue, that is suspicious as well. A person that hasn't even created any bugs or issues suddenly has a big problem with the speed of development? Especially the way this was phrased: "You ignore the many patches bit rotting away on this mailing list. Right now you choke your repo. Why wait until 5.4.0 to change maintainer? Why delay what your repo needs?" "Why delay what your repo needs?" This sounds like scammer lingo
- matsemann 2y agoWow, people suck. I almost hope it's fake profiles urging the maintainer to take on a new member as a long con. Because I sincerely hope Jigar Kumar is not a real person behaving like that towards volunteers working for free.
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