It's opensource by license. Nobody has to be "authorized" to do anything with code shared. That's not how the licenses work. > FOSS is about power to the end

It's opensource by license. Nobody has to be "authorized" to do anything with code shared. That's not how the licenses work. > FOSS is about power to the end users, and Signal is fighting hard against it. "power" here means the ability to derive your own forks (see https://github.com/dennisameling/Signal-Desktop https://github.com/dennisameling/Signal-Desktop). Being OSS doesn't mean they have to be fully transparent on their plans, nor does it mean they have to cave to abusive behavior in PRs, feature requests or forums.