Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
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This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

For those outside the loop: rsync starting using AI agents to handle the influx of AI security reports to improve the test suite and fix bugs. It introduced a few CVEs and people who never contributed in any way started firing shots at the maintainer.

rsync maintainer’s response to the people getting pissy about his usage of AI: medium and the related post on programming.dev

  • RonSijm@programming.dev
    7·
    2 天前

    At least it’s not like a bunch of other popular libraries:

    Then I get help from the community for a couple of years and a bunch of contributes to my bridge. Then my bridge is so nice that I can add a toll booth on both sides of the bridge and start charging people money to get across