Stepping back from the Tusky project
Stepping back from the Tusky project
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 t...
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To be super clear — I'm 100% not saying it is fraudulent. This could be as simple as “Some work was intended to be done, it wasn't, other work was done instead, and the expense description was not updated”.
This is common in small projects, I would say.
The answers and reactions of those admins is incredibly fishy tho, and I don't really see a good ending to all that with what's been documented.
Sad to see such a good project die.
There are a few other good options, I guess the good bits of the code can be pulled over?
Husky is a fork of Tusky. Probably better than just adding Tusky features to existing clients.
Nik clarified some questions and elaborated a lot on his issues with management:
OK, we're way past fishy now.
I’d like to hear the other side too, but it’s hard to imagine there’s no foul play at all.
Let's see, they have mentioned they'll come with an answer: https://birb.site/@charlag/110967792971490761
Quite sad, because Nik was the most active developer on the project. All my (small) contributions were reviewed by him: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Atinsuke
Man this makes me so sad