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"he would love to mentor new maintainers for libxml2, ""but there simply aren't any candidates""

I know some folks from China, Russia, and North Korea who would love to become maintainers. No pay needed. I recommend Jia Tan - he has vast experience maintaining opensource software.



Maybe my human interaction interfacing software has a glitch but I am having a hard time parsing this content. Do I detect a hint of sarcasm? Please add a '/s' at the end of your future posts to aid my very archaic and vintage brain matter.


Jia Tan was the alias of the hacker(s) who infiltrated xz to plant a backdoor. He/They were in the project for 2 years I believe, and so had "significant experience" "maintaining" open source software.


Thanks for the info; I read the news but did not remember the name of the person.


"Jia Tan" was the name of the person (or group) who became a maintainer of libxz and sneaked in a vulnerability targeting OpenSSH.


*liblzma


Maybe _my_ software has a glitch but was your comment also sarcastic? Be sure to add an /s next time...


No I had a hard time understanding as I was not aware of the person in question, no sarcasm.


All Internet comments are to be assumed sarcastic until proven otherwise. Bombcar’s law.




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