In recent days, our distribution has experienced several disruptions that we need to inform our community about to maintain full transparency. Davide Beatrici, known for his work on the instant messaging app Mumble, joined our distribution some time ago. The team had no hesitation in trusting him; after all, he was such a well-known figure that we didn’t expect anything bad. Although Davide didn’t make many contributions to the system, he offered to migrate our repository infrastructure from Gi...
I hope the Mumble team realise how much risk he poses to their project too. What a way to burn any legacy you might have had, and while he hasn’t made a proper statement, for the bits he has said, he doesn’t seem apologetic at all.
I feel like the mumble project is really starved for active developers and probably not in a position where they can just yeet out one of the 3 guys that do most of the work there.
From skimming their Matrix chat I got the impression that they handle this as “off-topic” without explicitly defending or condemning it.
I hope the Mumble team realise how much risk he poses to their project too. What a way to burn any legacy you might have had, and while he hasn’t made a proper statement, for the bits he has said, he doesn’t seem apologetic at all.
I feel like the mumble project is really starved for active developers and probably not in a position where they can just yeet out one of the 3 guys that do most of the work there.
From skimming their Matrix chat I got the impression that they handle this as “off-topic” without explicitly defending or condemning it.