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Comment by londons_explore

18 hours ago

There seems to be a bunch of downsides mentioned...

But what are the upsides of this change?

You no longer need to jump through the hoops in order to support your own root CA

https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784

> I've closed off access to issues and discussions.

> I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender representation. I find it intensely unwelcoming, and it's not reflective of the type of working environments I value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1rl5kuq/anyone_know...

  • It's like that time I started a primary school and then closed it because I hated that the overwhelming majority of employees were women.

  • This has happened in many packages contributed to by this person. Mkdocs e.g

    • unbelievable, how can a single person affect negatively FOSS so much?

      I mean really, closing repos? excluding maintainers? committing only on private repos?

      This type of behavior should be moderated and banned from any FOSS activity to avoid exactly this situation of becoming a liability.

      I've never seen a open source project page without a github link or a git clone ref like this https://www.encode.io/hx/ it is so ridiculous, wasn't that stuff on github? and isn't it anyway there due to over 1k forks?

      what's the advantage of having this behaviour? I see it only damaging towards the person, the project and the community.

  • That’s fair, good for the maintainer to consider his personal values with regards to projects he wants to spend his time on