Post #4348639
2026-08-03 07:46 UTC
@neilmadden@infosec.exchange Python does fairly well at tracking this sort of thing via PEPs. There might be some loss from the early stages, but that seems to be often true due to nobody realising at the time that it was important to keep it.
Transitioning between VCSs is a key time when there's information loss. Or when the product gets moved between companies.
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@neilmadden@infosec.exchange 2026-08-03 07:51
@dkf@cyberplace.social I worked on OpenAM at ForgeRock for many years, which was a fork of Sun’s OpenSSO - which dated back to a Sun/Netscape collab from the late 90s (iPlanet). At some point someone unearthed an old Sun manual for a very early version, and I think the office was filled with the sound of pennies dropping for weeks afterwards…