arp242 (Martin Tournoij)
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- arp242 (Martin Tournoij)
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- entity
- summary
- Open-source developer; primary fsnotify maintainer; long-running personal site at arp242.net
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- person, go, open-source
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- fsnotify-maintainer-dispute
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- 2026-05-12
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- 2026-05-12
Martin Tournoij, online as arp242. Open-source developer behind a number of small infrastructure tools and the primary maintainer of fsnotify. Personal site: https://www.arp242.net/.
Tracked here for the May 2026 fsnotify dispute (see fsnotify-maintainer-dispute). The relevant facts for that incident: project had historically handed out commit rights broadly; arp242's position was that those accounts were not "maintainers" in any meaningful current sense. Removed access to mattn over rushed merges across fsnotify's many platforms and a direct-to-main FUNDING.yml change made early in the new work. Pushed back publicly on framings of the change as "hostile takeover," pointing observers to the commit history.
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