I'm Edmund Miller, I'm a PhD
candidate, I have a broad range of interests, primarily in Functional Genomics. Through that
interest I got into bioinformatics after realizing I didn't have golden hands at the bench
during undergrad. That taste of programming experience got me dabling in writing smart
contracts and web apps and I cut my teeth on that. Through my research experience I aquired a
taste for processing data with workflows of the reproducible and high-throughput varietal. I
saw the light in March 2020 when I found nf-core and tossed aside
the reptilian workflow manager for Nextflow. I love a
good crossover episode of technologies and I'm always trying to push to the envelope.
Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries
appear in your free software community.
Exhibit A
It is a technical decision.
The technical reason is that the security team does not have the bandwidth to
provide lifecycle maintena…