I cannot fully explain this in any public forum without betraying the confidence of things that were said to me in private messages and our private Slack by other maintainers. What I can say is that I do not agree with the claim that I forced DomT4 to resign, it did not come out of the blue, this was the second time that DomT4 has decided to leave the project and all of my decisions were run past other (still active) Homebrew maintainers before I took them.

> How exactly is Homebrew not a service?

Is youtube-dl a service because it needs to be constantly updated, at great effort, to deal with new countermeasures and the like? Still looks like software to me.

If you were running the software for me (e.g. Gmail), then maybe Homebrew would qualify as a service.

> It’s also literally the opposite of quietly enabled

I discovered it when my firewall showed me an outbound connection to Google analytics. Homebrew spews so much stuff to the console, it's not something a regular user would read unless they looked for it. That was hardly sufficient disclosure.

You guys could have prompted for consent. You didn't. You still refuse to. And you won't entertain any suggestions that you do so unless it comes from a contributor. As I said in my original comment, your collective lack of judgement and refusal to consider the opinions of users is why I don't find you guys to be trustworthy anymore. I encourage everyone to find alternatives.