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

  • terabyterex
    42·
    18 hours ago

    how did he slopify anything? he got a huge invtease in contributions and used a tool to help weed out slop.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      8·
      16 hours ago

      They could have just refused merging slop. Rsync didn’t need these “contributions”.