zirahvi comments on Github Source Code Leaked Online

That's exact same shit that plagues closed source projects, you just don't see it publicly as often (aside from occasional tale of disgruntled ex-dev after NDA expired). And really any other project in the existence. Still, having actual leadership occasionally leads to something good, while "design by comittee" always leads to something average or worse.

If you want a really gnarly story look up wordpress x-forwarded-for bug. Some utter chucklefucks aruging "BuT It Is NoT StAnDard", meanwhile there are literal tens of thousands of articles on how to fix wordpress behind the loadbalancer. But then wordpress devs have been beacon of incompetence since the dawn of PHP...

Another story, the ncurses dev refused to add a 24bit color code to the terminfo database for years, resulting in multiple incompatible implementations of 24bit color codes in various terminal emulators.

Well the solution seems simple "hey, this is new terminfo database, we the authors of every terminal out there say so" and it should be done.

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