Comment by giov4

>FOSS is not affected negatively. First because FOSS is not en entity in the first place. There is no "community" per se but a muriad of softwares choosing open source licences for various reasons. Second because the choices of one project maintainer is negligible.

Yes it is, this was a major component.

>This type of behavior should be moderated and banned from any FOSS activity

By moderators that are not existing but should actually moderate human mental issues affecting FOSS

>Now I understand. You must be new. How old are you? 10? FOSS has existed way before github and will probably still exist when github will be forgotten. There are still many open source projects not using github, some do not even use git.

Nope, is just that a useful open source project for me has always public report and that's the basis to start collaborating.

>Not having to deal with external input, PRs, bug reports seems to be a good example.

That's normal in open source, should be taken into account and managed like everybody else does in open source projects. Just go look at sftpgo, as an example.

>Which person? The maintainer? I highly doubt so.

Yes clearly, the community easily realizes this behavior and now I see a private path of commits in private reps of somebody working alone.

>The project will be fine as long as the maintainer wants it to be active. This is the only thing that counts.

Nope, forked, hated and closed are not fine for an open source project.

>Which community? Other devs? They can (and do) fork when they wish to do so.

All of it, anybody using the open source, should be free to use, modify and collaborate on a project independently from the mental issues of the one that started it. closing repos just goes against all of this and should be a shame.