OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up
Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
OpenMandriva has accused a former contributor of using his trusted admin access to trash repositories and push a package that could have broken desktop installations after a community dispute spilled over into the project's infrastructure.
The Linux distribution disclosed the incident in a forum post this week, describing what it called an attempted act of "distribution sabotage" allegedly involving Davide Beatrici, a developer known for his work on the Mumble instant messaging app.
According to OpenMandriva, Beatrici joined the project some time ago and later offered to migrate its repository infrastructure from GitHub to his privately operated OneDev instance, mirroring several dozen repositories in the process.
While some maintainers were uneasy about concentrating so much of the project's infrastructure in one person's hands, the proposal went ahead because, as the project...
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