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1. cybre'd (riley@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jun-2018 11:27:47 EDT cybre'd

   We have a long-standing cycle: lead dev (Eugen) works himself into a stress noodle, then lets out his frustration publicly, which tends to be at people requesting features w/o coding and submitting as patch.

   After years of the community trying to find ways to mediate and moderate the tensions, a movement is building to fork mastodon so Eugen can have his authorial Mastodon and everyone else can try all this stuff he doesn't feel fits his vision.

   1. A Norse Rune (feoh@amicable.feoh.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 08:38:28 EDT A Norse Rune

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      @Riley Whatever the community decides I hope there’s a sizable dollop of compassion involved. Open-source project maintainer burn out is a well known and much written about phenomenon and I hope that if a fork does happen that friendly relations between fork and mainline can be maintained so the community doesn’t have to suffer and nobody has to choose sides.