OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

3 months ago by Supercrunchy to c/linux

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...

Supercrunchy 31 points 3 months ago

TL:DR: A contributor with write access got angry that a friend got kicked from a matrix channel, and this triggers a chain of events, ending in him trying to break the unstable(cooker) version of distribution. No other damage and they are working to restore stuff now.

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ImgurRefugee114 20 points 3 months ago

Yikes. What an asshole. They really should try to press charges; that's not okay.

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notabot 18 points 3 months ago

I hope the Mumble team realise how much risk he poses to their project too. What a way to burn any legacy you might have had, and while he hasn't made a proper statement, for the bits he has said, he doesn't seem apologetic at all.

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wasabi 2 points 3 months ago

I feel like the mumble project is really starved for active developers and probably not in a position where they can just yeet out one of the 3 guys that do most of the work there.

From skimming their Matrix chat I got the impression that they handle this as "off-topic" without explicitly defending or condemning it.

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ProdigalFrog 17 points 3 months ago

I recently learned that OpenMandriva's president (warning, lunduke link as evidence) has declared the project "non-woke" and "anti-DEI", which has resulted in it attracting a hard right community.

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TehPers 5 points 3 months ago

As little sympathy as I have for these kinds of people, what Davide is accused of doing is still unacceptable. Still, thanks for the additional context. Makes it easy to decide not to touch OpenMandriva in the future.

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Neptr 4 points 3 months ago

That second link gave me cancer just reading some of that shit.

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vanillama 1 point 3 months ago

It reads like reactionaries seeking each other for validation, so they MUST say every bit every time

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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace 3 points 3 months ago

Really? What the fuck?

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QuantumTickle 1 point 3 months ago

I noticed they declined to press charges, but I wish they'd change their minds on that. They really should press charges on the jerk.

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possiblylinux127 -6 points 3 months ago

Avoid obscure Linux distros

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floquant 20 points 3 months ago

Mandriva/Mandrake might be older than you...

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ProdigalFrog 9 points 3 months ago

OpenMandriva is now a hard right distro. Mageia is the better option for those who want a successor to Mandrake/Mandriva, though Mageia is struggling to retain an active community and maintainers, I believe.

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possiblylinux127 7 points 3 months ago

OpenMandriva is neither of those

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