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This is the sort of toxic behavior in open source development that pushes minorities (and especially women) out. It's theft of our work: it denies us the history of contributions to the project and improves their own "standing".

No one, no one, gets into the nitty gritty of why someone seemingly "hasn't contributed". The more lines of code and commits that are attributed to @Gargron@mastodon.social, the more sway he has in the project. Anyone would just take a look and say "Oh, Gargron committed the most, it's his project".

This is not "atypical" behavior. Almost every woman I know has had code stolen from them. I've had it happen numerous times at work (which then shows up as a lack of contributions at review time) and for open source projects.

It has real and lasting consequences, both for the community and for the person whose work has been stolen. It's fucked up, it's awful, and Emelia deserves better (we all do).

(cc @thisismissem@hachyderm.io)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/thisismissem/statuses/113465993207356999