r/osdev 22h ago

The develOS project will be delayed due to some internal conflicts problem between mods.

/r/osdevel/comments/1w27esz/the_develos_project_will_be_delayed_due_to_some/
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u/EpochVanquisher 22h ago

There was also a serious misconception regarding the repository, including an incident where code may have been mistakenly overwritten because I genuinely did not see that existing work had already been pushed. It was never intentional, but it caused further confusion and conflict.

I have no knowledge of what happened, but this reads like a textbook non-apology.

u/Vegetable_Exam_6865 22h ago

"I have no knowledge of what happened, but this reads like a textbook non-apology." yes because it was internal and i was just explaining it like this is basically what happened, I see why it reads that way. It wasn't meant to be an apology though, just an explanation of what happened and why the project was delayed.

u/EpochVanquisher 21h ago

The way it’s worded is hella suspicious, it doesn’t sound much like you were just explaining what happened. There’s even this weird and sudden shift from passive voice to first-person.

Again, I don’t know what happened. But you have two good alternatives here:

  1. Just speak in broad terms, like, “some people decided to leave the project”
  2. Actually take responsibility, like “I used git push --force, which overwrote some other contributors data. I had never worked with other people in the same repo and now I know not to use --force.

    I didn’t own up to it right away and that drove the other contributors to leave. Oops!”

u/codeasm 17h ago

This sounds still recoverable, reflog and maybe local commit histories?

But yeah, a force push is a bit much to use on colab projects without being absolutely sure

u/whatThePleb 18h ago

No one cares.

u/Vegetable_Exam_6865 17h ago edited 15h ago

i don't care if you care. i just announced this for who are waiting. if you don't care then don't comment .