<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> projects that jealously guard their contributor list are projects that get aggressively forked</p><p>or rewritten entirely and die into obscurity, depending on how obstinate the core developers are</p><p>**I'm looking at you, <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/flake8" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>flake8</span></a>. You had no one to blame but yourselves for <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/ruff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ruff</span></a> taking your spot.**</p>
