• erAck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Malicious account holders with a long term goal need to build reputation. It doesn’t matter much that such an app isn’t a dependency of other software.

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      6 months ago

      Practically every FOSS project is actively looking for volunteers/maintainers all of the time. More contributors are not problematic.

      The xz problem was that they socially engineered the main dev into giving them the keys to the kingdom.

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        6 months ago

        Making one a maintainer (with merge and possibly even direct commit/push permissions) is handing them a key to the kingdom. Recruiting a maintainer out of the blue without them being already contributor and long term participant in the project is questionable.