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I am stepping back from the #Tusky project with immediate effect.
I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via #OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those to the project's private "Tusky Contributors" Matrix channel the financial admins tone policed the feedback, refused to engage with the concerns I and others raised, and demanded the discussion be stopped.
There is too much detail for a thread, so please read https://write.as/nikclayton/stepping-back-from-the-tusky-project.
@nikclayton That's a lot of book keeping and managing overhead tbh. Though it seems like open collective couldn't make it any easier to handle this TIL - it's pretty awesome!
My greatest fear of launching monetary-focused foss products is this management overhead which compared to the rest of the industry just feels so unworthy. The monetary incentives just don't add up so I can definitely see how easy it'd be to get lost here.
@wraptile @nikclayton From my point of view, it's just what you need to do if you want to handle money and do it right.
It's not unlike writing tests and docs when writing code. They're not as fun as just writing code, but if you want to be professional, it's what you do.
(The other corollary is to build tooling/infra/process to make it as easy as possible to do the right thing.)