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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-09-23 21:49:34

Not interested in a debate on what ways are better or worse but it seems to me that @TheASF has a fair bit of material on "The Apache Way" which one could approach as a How-To even for projects that are not under the ASF or any other domiciling organization. It's not perfect but I'm not aware of any ASF project having the sort of nasty takeover like the Ruby affair.
OTOH, it may require the "hippie" vibe of ASF focused on consensus and community over code t…

Dan Sugalski (@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)
@maxine@hachyderm.io Having run an open source project in the past, what it's going to take is training the folks who are running, or want to run, an open source project. Basically it means someone sitting down and writing up a good "How to Manage an Open Source Project" and include things like "don't tolerate fascists, assholes, and other unpleasant people" in it. All the project management steps'll be handy too (wish I'd had them), but "kick out the fash early and vigorously" is the big on…