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Groupthink is what happens when people don't share their dissenting views, so the group as a whole makes poor decisions. This is why it is a bad idea to silence dissent. This defines the ROS community, as you have exemplified.

So it is good that you come and read the comments here. Welcome!

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Many people in that thread you linked to have criticized ROS and explained the issues they have with the build system, some even proposed improvements, but somehow you're the only one that had to have their permissions restricted because of your behavior. And that's after repeatedly breaking the code of conduct for years. I've yet to see any technical contribution from you in ROS or any other project. You don't know what groupthink means, you only know to play the victim, and even in that, you're doing a terrible job.

Sorry, I do not contribute to projects governed by a tribal oligarchy. However, the ROS project gives me many anti-patterns for software engineering research. Social and psychological aspects that lead to such a collective frenzy are also interesting. But you definitely deserve a special chapter on software engineering failures, where the intersection of technical debt, second-system effects, hubris, and bad governance.

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