On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 12:56:53AM +1000, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote:
Dear flashrom community,
I have just banned Nico Huber from flashrom gerrit and mailing list.
"I"?
This is a result of what was happening on flashrom during the last ~3 years. Nico has a long track record of bullying other developers, attacking people on public channels (Gerrit and mailing list), writing long toxic comments which blocked other people's work, and lying in all public channels. During recent years, Nico was the reason why several talented and motivated contributors left the project.
Feel free to detail all these events.
It is really sad (if not tragic) that a talented engineer, with a lot of technical knowledge and experience, annihilates all of that by being unable to work with other people, and by refusing to take advice and learn.
Ah, yes, Nico does have actual technical knowledge and a lot of experience with flashrom, especially since he has been involved with flashrom for a long, long time.
Long before google started caring anyway, and sent out some generalist with none of what Nico has been bringing to the party for all that time, who then promptly declared herself project leader with little prior history.
As you all know, Nico now has his own fork (aka flashrom-stable) and I had some hope that he will focus on that and we will get back to normal, peaceful and constructive work. Unfortunately, Nico decided to make a comeback, and started adding himself to flashrom patches and commenting on patches.
Working on flashrom patches, and commenting on them is what he has been doing since long before you even knew what flashrom was.
And one could argue that him forking flashrom was something he felt necessary given what you have been working on or towards over the last 2-3 years.
I do not accept bullying and lying, and I don't want this in the flashrom community.
"I", and "I" being imposed on a "community". Interesting.
And singlehandedly removing access to project resources could be construed as bullying as well.
No amount of technical expertise justifies bullying other people and lying in public. This is my firm position.
"_My_ firm postition".
Also, calling it your "firm position" does not lessen the insecurity you are displaying here.
Thank you guys for everything
Yes, thank Nico for sticking with flashrom for so long, and for actually helping users with actual questions on both irc and email since basically forever.
Thank you Anastasia, for holding weekly meetings on a project with limited mailing list activity and limited patch flow. I am sure that they were time well spent that could not have been spent on say, writing acual code, actually helping users, etc.
Luc Verhaegen.