Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
forum.openmandriva.org
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...
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Things done wrong:

    1. Relying on “trust”.
    2. Centralisation / private control.
    3. Not curbing down shitty behaviour as soon as apparent.
    4. Either the community is not aware of what’s considered acceptable behaviour, or can’t be arsed to denounce unacceptable behaviour.
    5. Not determining a member of the community has a negative impact on it and getting rid of them; instead doing things half-arsed, like just “kicked him out of one of the chat”.

    Things done right:

    1. Transparently telling the community what happened.

    Overall this doesn’t sound too bad. I hope the team is able to revert the damage.

      • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        You think I’m overreacting?

        Davide Beatrici, known for his work on the instant messaging app Mumble, joined our distribution some time ago. […] In protest, two people left the distribution, including Davide, a friend of the attacker. […] This infuriated Davide so much that, abusing of the administrative privileges he still had, he sabotaged the distribution today in the early morning hours.

        Not a good look IMO.

        • esc@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          It can be whatever look, I don’t even know any details except what r*ssian distribution says, but he had made 4 commits to mumble in 12 months.