The xz exploit only happened after a social engineering campaign to gaslight the maintainer(s) for not being responsive enough and then pressuring them to let someone else take over.

Think about that next time you're upset with maintainer responsiveness from FOSS you depend on.

1000% this. Thank you Jorge Castro is at KubeCon ❤️ 🇺🇦 !!!

Favorite KubeCon EU '24 talk so far: 'Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments - Tim Hockin (thockin.yaml) & Davanum Srinivas' youtube.com/watch?v=sNRnB4…

I missed this in person due to still talking to potential contributors after 'Keep Calm And Loadbalance on KIND with Antonio Ojea' 🙃

Recommended viewing!

Uploaded the slide deck of our talk about shifting left validation in Kubernetes today at Kubecon_. I had a fantastic co-presenter with Alex Zielenski who has been doing and is doing awesome work for the Kubernetes ecosystem around CRDs.

sched.co/1YeNx

This was so fun! Thanks to everyone who attended and for all the questions and conversations that followed! 🙇‍♂️

A COMPLETELY PACKED room for Tim Hockin (thockin.yaml) & Davanum Srinivas' 'Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments!' Literally not a seat free in the house!

Thanks again for everyone that attending my talk today - Why is this so HARD! Conveying the Business Value of Open Source.

I've uploaded the slides to sched.

If you have questions or want to chat, please feel free to reach out! :)

sched.co/1YeQH

Ben Elder is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, and an Elected Member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee.

Ben joins the show to talk about why Kubernetes became the standard for container orchestration, how he runs his home infrastructure, and more.…

Congratulations.Priyanka Saggu and the entire release team on a successful 1.29 release! And congratulations to everyone who contributed to it ♥️

Also - how awesome is the logo?!
PS: can you spot the 1.29 written there?

Tough day at VMware today 😞

So many EXCELLENT engineers on the market. If you are hiring, please make some noise or DM me!

If you want to help, consider helping debug an issue!

So many people seems to want to add more code but so few want to help wrangle the project we already have

... There's a LOT more to maintaining an open source project than writing and reviewing new feature-code