• jackeryjoo@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Also a reply so you can understand a bit how things typically work in FOSS projects.

    There’s a democracy in healthy ones, but ultimately, there has to be someone at the top that has the final say. The project maintainer/main contributor. Someone who gets to be the tie breaker, or absolutely final authority on what does or doesn’t make it into a patch/version/etc.

    This is extremely common, and generally healthy, in these kinds of ecosystems.

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      6 hours ago

      Yes, that’s just the way it is in systems that involve humans. But when that final authority refuses to make a necessary decision, what do you do?

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        9 hours ago

        It has worked successfully for linux for decades and other FOSS projects like Python have successfully followed the same model.