Episode 394 - The lie anyone can contribute to open source

Open Source Security Podcast - A podcast by Josh Bressers & Kurt Seifried - Mondays

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Josh and Kurt talk about filing bugs for software. There's the old saying that anyone can file bugs and submit patches for open source, but the reality is most people can't. Filing bugs for both closed and open source is nearly impossible in many instances. Even if you want to file a bug for an open source project, there are a lot of hoops before it's something that can be actionable. Show Notes Linux is a nightmare Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR Linux Kernel Faces Reduction in Long-Term Support Due to Maintenance Challenges Curl NULL pointer dereference