[HN Gopher] Tenacity: Floss Audacity Fork ___________________________________________________________________ Tenacity: Floss Audacity Fork Author : yewenjie Score : 34 points Date : 2021-07-08 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | teraflop wrote: | Notably, the previous maintainer of this fork stepped down a | couple of days ago, after a harassment campaign from 4chan | allegedly escalated to a violent attack. | | https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99 | ushakov wrote: | in the news: | https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenacity_maintainer_q... | legostormtroopr wrote: | This is a gross oversimplification of the matter. This fork | asked the public for names (mistake) and when they didn't like | the most popular name they disqualfied it, and labelled any | attempts to ask why as trolling. | | Given that the Tenacity team wanted to be a fork for everyone, | having their first action be refusing a popular vote was a bad | look and things _allegedly_ escalated from there. | viraptor wrote: | It's not an oversimplification - it doesn't matter what the | project did before. People always have the option not to use | it. Harassing people because they don't run the project as | you want cannot be excused. | cortesoft wrote: | What was the most popular name they rejected? | Arnavion wrote: | To be clear, regardless of whether they did an internet poll | properly or not, doling out physical violence because of it | was not justified in any way. | gsich wrote: | I don't know if there is evidence for that. | Arnavion wrote: | Sure, I'm not saying I have any. The original post | already said "allegedly" so I didn't feel the need to | repeat it. | djur wrote: | Is the implication that Audacity is no longer "FLOSS"? | CharlesW wrote: | That's how I read it. Since Audacity is FOSS, I'm inferring | that the developers believe that Audacity's new telemetry | capabilities conflict with the "L" = "free as in freedom" bit | of FLOSS. | xbar wrote: | I would guess that all three of the listed concerns are "free | as in freedon" concerns. | npongratz wrote: | The README appears to be explicit about the team's reasons for | forking: https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity#why-did-this- | projec... | | To quote: | | Why did this project fork audacity/audacity? | | You can find more information on the causes of the fork here: | | Privacy policy which may violate the original project's GPL | license [0] | | Contributer's License Agreement (CLA) which may violate the | same GPL license [1] | | Attempts at adding telemetry using Google services for data | collection [2] | | [0] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/1213 | | [1] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/932 | | [2] https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835 | albertzeyer wrote: | Related: Two Audacity Forks called "Tenacity" and "Sneedacity" | are crusading among themselves to be the true heir/successor of | Audacity | https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/og0csv/two_aud... | legostormtroopr wrote: | This is the third time this fork has shown up on HackerNews in as | many days, and all I've seen from this new group is bikeshedding | and drama. | | They are more focused on picking a name, logo and who is in | charge than they are on pushing releases. By comparison, | Sneedcity is already making changes and pushing releases out. | | IMO this is a group that is more interested in "owning" a popular | open-source project than they are _maintaining_ an open-source | project. Someone saw the Audacity drama as an opportunity to pad | their resume by "running" an open-source project. | | As ESR pointed out forks live and die by the legitimacy of the | broader community, and so far I haven't seen anything from these | team that suggests they are legitimate. | meibo wrote: | It's also funny to me that they're still linking to original | Audacity resources and forums. | | Will be interesting to see if they'll actually "maintain" it or | just merge upstream once in a while and do releases. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-08 23:00 UTC)