Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Karl Fogel @kfogel@kfogel.org

11/10/2025, 6:49:05 PM

Public

Dear Fediverse: Does anyone have any great examples of a open source projects undergoing successful governance transitions? Or for that matter unsuccessful transitions?

I'm interested in all types of projects that have done this, but in particular in those that started from a single founding organization and then later made a transition to effective governance by a broader set of stakeholders. The founding organization may well have encouraged this transition -- I'm not trying to focus on hostile or scandalous forks here, though if your example happens to fall in that category I wouldn't turn it down!

(ICIM: Yes, I have read "Governance Matters: Lessons from Restructuring the data.table OSS Project" (Oliviera, Amoakohene, Hocking, Gerosa, and Steinmacher) and seen tickets #5676 and #5656.)

Formal governance document · Issue #5676 · Rdatatable/data.table

data.table has no formal governance document; Matt Dowle, the original author and only current maintainer, has commit permissions on github, and he submits the package to CRAN. The only other autho...

github.com · GitHub

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