Ben Balter
@benbalter
@benbalter
We romanticize open source as being transparent, but responses to https://twitter.com/benbalter/status/1177621475848806402 suggest many critical conversations happen in private. If contributors knew maintainers had private backchannels they weren't privy to, how do you think they'd react? Do they already know?
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