THE VIDEO SHELF · toxic people in open source
Assholes are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk).
Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk gives a Monki Gras talk arguing that abusive, toxic contributors damage open source projects. He makes the case for removing them from communities.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as the go-to evidence that rudeness drives contributors away and that toxic people must be removed from projects.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Raftery
- Topic
- toxic people in open source
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
The glibc team are great people to work with; I managed to get a patch into this release which had been point blank refused by Ulrich Drepper when he was maintainer, and they were incredibly helpful and the process was really easy. So get your …
justincormack on Hacker News · 2014-02
In The GNU C Library version 2.19 is now availableGood call. A good video related to this: "Assholes Are Ruining Your Project. Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk)" [VIDEO]
Modified3019 on Hacker News · 2023-09
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