We must have different definitions of “being in touch”. Sending an email and going on vacation, then actively ignoring incoming messages isn’t being in touch. And I don’t blame the person from the Nix team who went on vacation, but not forwarding the researcher to anyone else is solely on the nix team. They responded to the message in the matrix channel which included the deadline so they were well aware of it. If they knew they wouldn’t be able to release the fix before the deadline, they could’ve (and should’ve) asked for an extension. Which they did not
This message was sent last Sunday in a public Matrix discussion involving the author.
> Eelco is working on it, there's a patch on the GitHub advisory, we plan to get it out on Monday, but no promises yet if everything will get done by then
In what world is this "not being in touch," "actively ignoring messages," or "not forwarding the researcher to anyone else"? Also, Nix maintainers clearly state in the Mastodon thread that they weren't "aware" of the deadline. Very different definitions of words indeed.
