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50 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 9 comments
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knowitnone2 1 hours ago [-]
"he would love to mentor new maintainers for libxml2, ""but there simply aren't any candidates""

I know some folks from China, Russia, and North Korea who would love to become maintainers. No pay needed. I recommend Jia Tan - he has vast experience maintaining opensource software.

ivolimmen 18 minutes ago [-]
Maybe my human interaction interfacing software has a glitch but I am having a hard time parsing this content. Do I detect a hint of sarcasm? Please add a '/s' at the end of your future posts to aid my very archaic and vintage brain matter.
yupyupyups 13 minutes ago [-]
Jia Tan was the alias of the hacker(s) who infiltrated xz to plant a backdoor. He/They were in the project for 2 years I believe, and so had "significant experience" "maintaining" open source software.
tsimionescu 12 minutes ago [-]
"Jia Tan" was the name of the person (or group) who became a maintainer of libxz and sneaked in a vulnerability targeting OpenSSH.
traversaro 1 hours ago [-]
Related gitlab comment: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/976#note_253... .
gnabgib 2 hours ago [-]
Related Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy (298 points, 84 days ago, 270 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381093
0xbadcafebee 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks, this is really interesting.

I feel like it adds more weight to my feeling that we should have a software building code. When you have software that's critical infrastructure, with a nutso security policy like "no embargoes / 0day me bruh", we should have some regulations in place to require the software be maintained properly (that is to say, in a sane manner) or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things. Which would inevitably force commercial entities to pay for the maintenance so it could be done right.... which they should be doing already, the same way any company that builds safety-critical infrastructure has to pay to do it right.

If we want society to be safe, we have to make a law that enforces it. That's how that shit works.

(as an aside: holy shit, you're a prolific HN submitter, and all from different sources. where do you get it all?)

Snild 30 minutes ago [-]
> we should have a software building code

This made my brain go "Oh no, not this again. Open source projects don't owe you..." etc etc.

> or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things

Oh. Yeah, okay, absolutely! For safety-critical, I would like to think the responsibility already lies with the integrator/seller, but making it explicitly so can't hurt.

throw839393949 15 minutes ago [-]
Too bad gnome foundation does not get any money. They are completely broke, like Mozilla!
throw839393949 24 minutes ago [-]
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