Kris Brandow
Fallthrough
The Failure of Open Source Leadership
- Published
- October 7, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 30m
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- Last updated
- Aug 16, 2026
Discusses Open source project leaders have faced heavy challenges over the last decade and a half. It seems ev…
Summary
Open source project leaders have faced heavy challenges over the last decade and a half. It seems every language community has had conflicts with its leadership: Python with the struggles of the Python 2 to 3 migration; Node.JS and the community's conflict with Joyent; Rust and their handling of trademarks and IP; Wordpress and their conflict with WPEngin…
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Open source project leaders have faced heavy challenges over the last decade and a half. It seems every language community has had conflicts with its leadership: Python with the struggles of the Python 2 to 3 migration; Node.JS and the community's conflict with Joyent; Rust and their handling of trademarks and IP; Wordpress and their conflict with WPEngine; and of course Go and their conflict around dependency management (and error handling). Now we've added another: the recent conflict between