I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago on platform engineering, and I keep coming back to this point. It's so poignant, I think, especially now:
"Frankly, who the fuck do you think is most qualified to lead without authority and work within systems to drive change than those who have been systematically oppressed, denied leadership roles and opportunities, and have had to succeed despite that?"
Chatting with @mhoye this morning I was reminded of the idea that "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" (https://aosabook.org/) should have had another volume called "The Architecture of Open Source Organizations" in which people who'd been with various orgs (but were no longer there, so were less constrained in what they could say) talked about how specific OSS groups had come to have their current shape and what they'd done well and poorly along the way. 1/
#Meson needs to learn that Linux is not an operating system unto itself.
No really, like 95% checks for host_machine.system() == 'linux' are wrong, unless you really care about kernel specifics like Linux kernel modules. Typically what you want to check is:
is my compiler GCC / Clang? (use the Meson compiler object for that!)
Apple actually offered the LLVM work to be contributed and integrated into the gcc
The offer was refused
Later, the gcc adopted, late and haslty, many of the features LLVM had
I guess that accounts or another successful non GNU project
with the added bonus of offering an example for the manuals of the pettyness that is a landmark of Richard Stallman's personality and hence of the GNU project as a whole, let alone many of its minions
