You're right. They should have just done it and told no one.
We need to focus on the important things: not telling anyone, and not trying to break anything. It's important to just not have any knowledge on this stuff at all
We need to focus on the important things: not telling anyone, and not trying to break anything. It's important to just not have any knowledge on this stuff at all
It's one thing if you're trying to make sure that maintainers are actually reviewing code that is submitted to them and fully understanding "bad code" from good but a lot of open source projects are volunteer effort and maybe we should be shifting focus to how maintainers should be discouraged from accepting pull requests where they are not 100% confident in the code that has been submitted. Not every maintainer is going to be perfect but it's definitely not an easy problem to solve overnight by a simple change of policy.