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Couldn't someone he trusts just ask him for credentials? It may be harder to contact him right now, but not impossible.
by agildehaus 7y ago
Couldn't someone he trusts just ask him for credentials? It may be harder to contact him right now, but not impossible.
- bdcravens 7y agoJails have mail, and most have phones.
- oefrha 7y agoNot if the credentials are in a password manager. Will I divulge my master password just so that someone else could maintain a project that I can’t? The most likely answer is no.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoSeems really sheepish to bother the guy in jail over this. Also, publish creds aren't the problem. The problem seems to be that nobody else really wants to maintain it including anyone at Babel, core-js' biggest user afaict. If nobody steps up, it should just be a reminder of how flimsy open-source can be when there are so many bus-factor-of-one nodes out there that we depend on. It's a pretty big downside of depending on the hobbytime charity of random people, especially when we (or github comment culture) are so hostile when anyone dares to seek a penny. You could write a library that every fortune 500 company uses to save a cumulative hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee-hours over the library's lifetime, but you're the asshole if you use your library's popularity to seek work or donations. People will come out of the woodwork to scold you.
- shaneprrlt 7y agoConsidering he's sitting in prison, I'm sure he has much more pertinent things to be worrying about. Add to that the fact that when he reached out to the community he worked hard (for free) to support, and they told him to basically FO, I doubt he's going to spend even a microsecond trying to be helpful in this situation.