GVisor is being donated to CNCF(gvisor.dev)
6 points by birdculture | 0 comments
gVisor blog post announcing that the gVisor container sandbox project is being donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
#open-source-governance on Hacker News
12 stories tagged open-source-governance, newest first.
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"(lwn.net)
441 points by pluc | 373 comments
LWN brief reporting that Debian's general-resolution vote on large language models chose the option allowing responsible use of generative AI by contributors.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded(discourse.nixos.org)
358 points by Meleagris | 182 comments
NixOS Discourse announcement that the Nixpkgs core team has disbanded, reviewing its achievements and citing unsustainability and maintainer health.
Changing how we develop Ladybird(ladybird.org)
811 points by EdwinHoksberg | 515 comments
Ladybird blog post by Andreas Kling announcing the project will stop accepting public pull requests, with code changes made only by maintainers ahead of alpha.
Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler(ruby-lang.org)
620 points by sebiw | 322 comments
Official Ruby news post by matz announcing that the Ruby core team is taking ownership of the RubyGems and Bundler repositories.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover(joel.drapper.me)
491 points by bradgessler | 310 comments
Blog post by Joel Drapper alleging Shopify pressured Ruby Central into taking over the Bundler and RubyGems projects from their maintainers without consent.
![Screenshot of pup-e.com: Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/19/7938d5f7-b4ea-4b96-a9a4-8699861883cc.jpg)
Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf](pup-e.com)
651 points by jolux | 220 comments
A PDF statement by longtime RubyGems maintainer Ellen (duckinator) describing how Ruby Central took control of the RubyGems GitHub enterprise and removed maintainers in September 2025.
WordPress Is in Trouble(anderegg.ca)
547 points by ulrischa | 336 comments
Blog post arguing WordPress is in trouble amid the escalating dispute between Automattic's Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, including the WP Engine Tracker site.
Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork(techcrunch.com)
344 points by impish9208 | 141 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Matt Mullenweg deactivated WordPress.org accounts of contributors who were planning a fork of WordPress.
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL(awesomekling.substack.com)
769 points by zmodem | 230 comments
Andreas Kling's Substack post announcing he is forking the Ladybird browser into its own project and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL.
The Future of the Vim Project(groups.google.com)
617 points by mrzool | 349 comments
Christian Brabandt's vim_dev mailing list post on continuing the Vim project, covering GitHub admin access, new maintainers, and merge plans.
Why I Left Rust(jntrnr.com)
729 points by SmileyKeith | 643 comments
Blog post by Jonathan Turner (May 2023) explaining why he left the Rust project, addressing speculation about what happened.