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So essentially they randomly cut off a bunch of long time maintainers for some vague legal and/or security reasons. If there was real reason to do that in a hu
by jmuguy 1y ago
So essentially they randomly cut off a bunch of long time maintainers for some vague legal and/or security reasons. If there was real reason to do that in a hurry, that's what we need to see, not a corporate PR message.
- awilson5454 1y ago100%. I assumed this was inspired by the supply chain attack, but what a horrible way to address this. Reverting it back before revoking it a second time is even more bizarre. Severely mixed messages from leadership, perhaps?
- gedy 1y agoIt’s not clear to me - did they entirely cut them off, or did they reduce their role as admin of the GitHub org? If so, I'm not defending it, and I could understand why someone would feel insulted by that - but also get why an org doesn't want too many with elevated privileges.
- favorited 1y agoAccording to the author's PR where she removed herself as a maintainer, she lost commit access. https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/8987 https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/8987