github-drama (community fork #2)

This is a curated collection of "dramatic" GitHub interactions.

About this project

This repo is intended to point out controversial situations that come up in the world of software development, and not to harass anyone. Sometimes tensions build up in online interactions, and the intention of github-drama is to preserve links to such discussions so people can discover and read them.

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For contributing guidelines, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Phylogenetic tree

This repository is neodrama/github-drama. It was forked from github-drama/github-drama repository in August 2023, when github-drama organisation was made private due to someone's report. The github-drama/github-drama repository was forked in 2022 from nikolas/github-drama.

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actions/runner-images - GitHub rolls out a broken change in macos runner images that failed hashFiles()

• issues/13341
• github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180160

actix/actix-web

• issues/1289
• www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framework_maintainer_quits/
• fafhrd91/actix-web-postmortem

albertodemichelis/squirrel/pull/67

Alex313031/thorium

• Chrome fork with Windows 7 support includes furry porn in chrome:/// pages for whatever reason.
• issues/463
• issues/468

ambv/black/issues/118

• A heated debate erupts over Black's strict formatting rules, with users arguing about code style enforcement and the project's "opinionated" approach. The thread becomes a battleground for code formatting philosophies.

angular/angular-cli/issues/1252

• A long-standing issue where users complain about the CLI's handling of dependencies and build output.

ansible/ansible/issues/10530

• Users are surprised by the appearance of "cowsay" ASCII art in Ansible output, enabled by default if the cowsay binary is present.

ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098

• A Christmas-themed easter egg in the UI library triggers a request for a prop to disable it.

anthropics/claudes-c-compiler

• Anthropics' Claude Opus 4.6 wrote a dependency-free C compiler in Rust, but cannot compile a hello world example
• Later discover shows a path issue as the compiler still function as expected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920922

anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262

anddea/revanced-patches/issues/1424

• Morphe team (original patch authors) demands that the ReVanced "Spoof Clients" patch maintainer add an in-app attribution notice for Morphe, claiming their GPL license requires this.
• willing to credit Morphe but wants to acknowledge all upstream contributors (yt-dlp, NewPipe, J2V8, ReVanced, RVX, etc.), since the patch is derivative of multiple projects.
• Morphe insists that their GPL license, via a "section 7" clause, requires UI-level attribution—even for merged GPL projects—and refers to a Stack Overflow post as justification.
• anddea argues that forced UI elements aren’t actually mandated, repo/readme credit is sufficient, and attribution should be fair and consistent across all codebases.

ariya/phantomjs/issues/15345

• A new maintainer announces his suspension of PhantomJS development.

aspnet/Home/issues/2022

• ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages dropped support for .NET Desktop.

atom/tree-view/pull/804

• A pull request aimed to restore single-click file opening in Atom's tree view.

atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588 (archive: 1, 2)

• Atom Minimap package integrated Kite, an AI-powered coding assistant.

audacity/audacity/pull/835, ghostarchive

• Audacity maintainers propose adding Analytics to the open-source audio editor, sparking immediate backlash from privacy-conscious users.

AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

• issues/6359 (archive.vn) (archive.org)

ayojs/ayo/issues/36 (archive.ph) (archive.org)

• Ayo.js forked from Node.js.

badges/shields/pull/9474

• A new contributor attempted to add a Bazel logo to Shields.io.

bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

• Bitwarden's desktop version 2024.10.0 introduced a proprietary SDK, making it impossible to build the client without it.

bower/bower

• /issues/1102
• /pull/1748
• Bower's first-run prompt asking for anonymous usage reporting disrupted automated workflows.

bower/bower/pull/1748

• Bower's LockFile feature was proposed, aiming to introduce dependency locking.

causiq/logary/issues/345

• Logary introduced a licensing model that required commercial IIS/Kestrel users to pay fees, sparking debate over fairness and F# ecosystem support.

chrisaljoudi/uBlock - Ownership transfer/donations drama

• /pull/1517
• /issues/1153
• A contributor accused the maintainer of soliciting donations for work done by others.

claude-code

• Anthropics blocked 3rd party tools using claude API and issue error messages,
• More issues from opencode github repo: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
• Claude issued statement on twitter later on and closed original issue: https://x.com/trq212/status/2009689809875591565
• hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/51079

cloudflare/wildebeest/issues/303, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive, freezepage

• Cloudflare's embrace-and-extend Fediverse software posts private messages to the local public timeline. Cloudflare maintainers have flagged several comments that go into technical detail about the bug as spam.

crablang/crab/issues/14

daeuniverse/dae

• Project maintainers made a bot that automatically closes reported issues if the issuer didn't star the repo.
• /issues/368
• news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691652

deepseek-ai/deepseek-llm/issues/51

• User brought up the pro-china political bias of the LLM, causing a flamewar in the comments.

dear-github/dear-github/issues/107

Delgan/loguru/issues/563

• Loguru's use of pickle for exception serialization was flagged as a security risk by a user's company.

django/django/pull/2692

• Django replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower.

django/django/pull/19631

docker/docker/pull/31075

• Docker switched to a YY.MM versioning scheme, sparking debate over semantic versioning and release cadence.

docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910

• Docker required users to log in to download Docker CE.

docker/for-mac/issues/1120

• Docker users requested the ability to download old releases, citing issues with newer versions and the lack of an official archive.

doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource

• A repository was created to document claims that pfSense falsely advertises itself as open-source, arguing that key components are not publicly available.

dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive.org

• Malicious owner takeover of npm package (@right9ctrl)

dotnet/cli/issues/3093

• .NET Core's telemetry feature was criticized for being enabled by default.

dotnet/csharplang/issues/993

• A proposal suggested creating a Chinese version of C#, F#, and VB.

dotnet/maui/issues/35

• .NET MAUI's name clashed with existing projects Maui Linux and MauiKit

dotnet/Microsoft.Maui.Graphics/issues/47

dotnet/roslyn/pull/3507

• Roslyn removed occurrences of the term "whitelist" from its codebase, replacing it with alternative terminology.

dotnet/roslyn - Tabs vs. spaces drama

• VS2017express replaced tabs with spaces despite user settings
• Pressing Tab after certain keywords in Visual Studio caused unintended code changes

dotnet/runtime/issues/27939

• Tuple member naming conventions in .NET were debated, with discussions on whether PascalCase or camelCase should be used.

dotnet/runtime/issues/92849

dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

• Hot Reload was removed from dotnet watch, making it exclusive to Visual Studio

dotnet-foundation/Home - .NET Foundation ReactiveUI PR drama

• dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39
• reactiveui/splat/pull/778
• dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/40
• The .NET Foundation's Executive Director merged a PR in ReactiveUI's Splat project without maintainer approval.

EpicGames/Signup/pull/24

• Notification spam of 400k GitHub users due to tagging @EpicGames/developers on GitHub
• ycombinator

facebook/react/issues/10191

facebookresearch/llama/pull/73, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• Summary:
  • Meta's LLaMA is a 65-billion-parameter large language model.
  • The Register reported that "someone on 4Chan posted details on how to obtain the whole model via peer-to-peer file sharing, and eventually instructions on how to download it all were published on GitHub." on March 8, 2023. (source: The Register)
  • The Guardian reported, "Initially posted to 4Chan, a link to the BitTorrent mirror of LLaMA eventually made it to GitHub" on March 7, 2023. (source: The Guardian)
  • A GitHub user opened a pull request containing the magnet link originated from 4chan /g/. (source: pull/73)
• Journalism:
  • The Guardian, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • The Register, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4Chan /g/ 91850335, archive.is, ghostarchive
  • 4Chan /g/ 91870752, archive.is, ghostarchive
  • DesuArchive /g/ 91850335, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • DesuArchive /g/ 91870752, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News page 2, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News page 3, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • rDrama, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Reddit r/MachineLearning, archive.is, archive.org, ghostarchive

fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849

• Summary
  • A GitHub user named @fasterthanlime published an article titled "Rust: The wrong people are resigning" in May 2023, highlighting concerns about the resignations of key individuals in the Rust language community.
• Journalism
  • Hacker News 36090512
  • Hacker News 36091242
  • Hacker News 36101501
  • Hacker News 36105637
  • Hacker News 36106942
  • Reddit r/Rust 13sqdt7
  • Reddit r/Rust 13tsmht
  • Reddit r/Rust 13u8car
  • rDrama 173622
  • rDrama 174098
  • Kiwifarms (Clearnet)
  • Kiwifarms (Tor)
  • 4chan /g/ 93695805, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 93710005, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • desuarchive /g/ 93695805
  • desuarchive /g/ 93710005

Feodor2/Mypal/issues/3, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• Dramatis Personae on GitHub:
  • Matt A. Tobin, New Tobin Paradigm, @mattatobin, github, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • M. C. Straver, Moonchild, @wolfbeast, github, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • OpenBSD volunteers
  • Mypal volunteers
• Summary:
  • OpenBSD-WIP volunteers were porting the Pale Moon browser to OpenBSD.
  • Mypal volunteers were porting the Pale Moon browser to Windows XP.
  • Pale Moon developers filed DMCA takedown notices against the forks.
• DMCA takedown notices on GitHub:
  • 2021-10-14-pale-moon.md, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 2021-10-27-pale-moon.md, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 2021-10-28-binoc-central-mirror.md, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 2021-10-12-boc-uxp.md, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• GitHub issues:
  • jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Feodor2/Mypal/issues/3, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Feodor2/Centaury/issues/39, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Feodor2/Centaury/issues/40, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Journalism on Kiwifarms:
  • kiwifarms 99665, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • kiwifarms 114903, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Journalism on Rdrama:
  • rdrama 13548
  • rdrama 22033
• Journalism on Reddit:
  • reddit r/palemoon, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • reddit r/opensource, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • reddit r/programming, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Journalism on 4chan /g/:
  • 4chan /g/ 83929918
  • desuarchive 83929918, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 85518484, archive.is
  • desuarchive 85518484, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 86124256, archive.is
  • desuarchive 86124256, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• Rust Evangelism and Fish Carcinisation - The Inevitable Evolution
• Fish-shell is an easy-to-use command line shell for Linux distributions and MacOS. A GitHub user named Ridiculousfish is a member of the Fish-shell organization and an Apple software engineer.
• Ridiculousfish opened a pull request titled "Rewrite it in Rust" in January 2023, the URL of which was shared on Y Combinator Hacker News and 4chan /g/, prompting numerous off-topic comments from Rust evangelists.
• Journalism:
  • Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Lobste.rs, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan, archive.is
  • Desuarchive, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

flathub/flathub/pull/1978

• A Flathub pull request proposed an unofficial MultiMC distribution.

fluentassertions/fluentassertions/pull/2943

• Fluent Assertions transitioned to a dual-licensing model.

flutter/flutter/issues/11609

• A proposal suggested adding JSX-like syntax to Dart for Flutter.

ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/711

• A pull request proposed reverting a breaking change to the model format and mmap support.

github - Shai-Hulud npm worm

• Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain
• scttcper/tinycolor/issues/257
• The Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm: analysis, and what you need to know

github - Actions self-hosted runners pricing changes

• On March 2026, Github plans to begin charging for self-hosted runners on private repositories. They reversed this decision the next day.
• https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler-pricing-and-a-better-experience-for-github-actions/
• hackernews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291414
• https://x.com/github/status/2001372894882918548
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/

github/dmca - youtube-dl takedown

• pull/8122 (archive.org, archive.ph)
• pull/8140 (archive.org, archive.ph)

github/dmca - GTAmodding/re3 drama

• github/dmca/blob/master/2021/02/2021-02-19-take-two.md
• pull/8839 (archived)

golang/go/issues/21956

• A user advocated for moving Go's development workflow entirely to GitHub.

golang/go/issues/33021

• A proposal suggested removing the Google logo from the Go website

google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

• gemini-cli run amok, a bot argues with itself.

google/googletest/issues/1660

• Google Test's documentation was criticized for being unclear

google/googletest/issues/1666

• A user described Google Test as difficult to install and configure.

GoogleCloudPlatform/click-to-deploy/pull/209

• A pull request proposed replacing "slave" with "agent" in Google Click-to-Deploy.

greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1175

• The Great Suspender's original maintainer announced a change in project ownership, leading to concerns about the new owner's identity and about potential malware.

home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel - Donations icon issue

• /issues/2274
• Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

Homebrew/brew - Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

• /issues/20755
• /discussions/6482
• alacritty/alacritty/issues/8749
• hackernews discussion

Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/24654 (archive: 1, 2)

• Homebrew user questioned whether Apache httpd should be a dependency for PHP.

Homebrew/homebrew-services/issues/151 (archive: 1)

• A Homebrew user requested finer control over starting and stopping services, arguing that the --all flag was too broad and led to unintended dependencies being launched.

Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/50683 (archive: 1)

• A Homebrew user questioned the removal of the rtorrent formula.

lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge/discussions/169

• ComfyUI (Stable Diffusion frontend) devs accuse Forge (another SD frontend) of using their code, license drama ensues.

indutny/node-ip - CVE drama

• github/advisory-database/pull/3504
• socket.dev/blog/node-ip-maintainer-restores-github-repo-after-archiving-due-to-overblown-cve-rating
• A GitHub Advisory Database entry flagged the NPM IP package as vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks.

iperov/DeepFaceLive/issues/41

• A user argued that DeepFaceLive should cease development, claiming the technology is primarily used for scams and deception.

irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1227

• An issue is opened that criticized the management of the Toxcore repository.

jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805

• A new update version 1.7.0 - introduced breaking changes without a major version bump.

jdm-contrib/justdelete.me/issues/86 (archive: 1)

• JustDeleteMe fork mass-tagged users who had starred the original repository, asking them to support the new project.

Jguer/yay/issues/496

• An issue is opened about removing packages with Yay

joyent/libuv/pull/1015

jquery/download.jqueryui.com

• /issues/359
• /issues/390
• jQuery UI Download Builder encountered an Error 502 (Bad Gateway) when users attempted to download files.

JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/398

• A user reported that Pkg.add("IJulia") failed due to BinDeps errors and calls the developer an "amateur".

katharostech/bevy_retrograde/issues/1

• Users questioned the Katharos License, arguing that its religious alignment and legal ambiguity posed adoption and contribution risks.

keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725

• A Debian package change removed browser integration from KeePassXC

kenwheeler/slick/issues/681

kmmbvnr/django-jenkins/issues/349

kraih/mojo/issues/656

ksh93/ksh

• original ksh kinda blew up - ksh fallout.
• original ksh rewound.
• ksh-community stalled.
• ksh93 seems to be active now though.

ldapjs/node-ldapjs

• Developer of a Node library calls quits after receiving an email reminiscent of Xbox Live chat.
• /commit/8ffd0bc
• Discussion: Hacker News, 4chan

Legcord/Legcord/issues/745

lerna/lerna

• /pull/1616
• /pull/1619
• /issues/1622
• /issues/1625
• /issues/1628
• /issues/1630
• /pull/1631
• /issues/1632
• /pull/1633

Marak/colors.js

• The maintainer of colors.js and faker.js intentionally corrupted the code of his libraries, breaking many projects using them
• colors.js/issues/285
• colors.js/issues/290
• faker.js/issues/1046

mastodon/mastodon - Alt text limit for images

• /pull/37862
• https://txt.ltdk.xyz/giving-a-fuck-about-accessibility/

matplotlab/matplotlab

• Matplotlab maintainer closes a PR opened by a AI agent, who later wrote a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
• Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559

mdn/yari, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• issues:
  • /issues/9208, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive (locked as too heated)
  • /issues/9230, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Summary:

  • The Register wrote,

    "Mozilla Developer Network, a widely used technical resource for web developers, this week introduced an assistive service called AI Help."

    in July 2023. (source: The Register (2023/07/03))

  • A GitHub user, @eevee, opened an issue and wrote,

    "MDN has generated a convincing-sounding lie and there is no apparent process for correcting it"

    in July 2023. (source: /issues/9208)

• Journalism:
  • The Register (2023/07/03), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • The Register (2023/07/06), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4Chan /g/ 94460477, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4Chan /g/ 94686609, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • DesuArchive /g/ 94460477, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • DesuArchive /g/ 94686609, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Kiwifarms (.net)
  • Kiwifarms (.onion), archive.ph, ghostarchive
  • Kiwifarms (sneed.today), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • rDrama, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Reddit r/webdev, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

Microsoft/Terminal/issues/10362

Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/3622

Microsoft/vscode

• /issues/32405
• /issues/54261
• /issues/191229
  • Summary: A Chinese company created a fork of VSCode named CEC-IDE, but claims all credit done for it as a "Chinese Home-grown IDE", violating the MIT license.

Microsoft/vscode - Santa hat drama

• issues/87268
• issues/87440

Microsoft/vscode - Enabling AI co-author by default

• pull/310226
• pull/313931

microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1114

microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168

Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/673

minio/minio - MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only (disabled docker release right before a severe CVE patching) + UI feature removal

• issues/21647
• issues/3546
• hackernews/45665452
• minio officially entered maintenance mode and stopped accepting new changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136023
• minio no longer maintained on github and redirect to their website download page: https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/7aac2a2c5b7c882e68c1ce017d8256be2feea27f
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041

mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/2054

moment/moment/issues/1407

MongoBleed - A MongoDB High CVE (8.7) disclosed on 12/19/2025:

• The tech lead of Elastic Security published a POC of the CVE right on Christmas day of 2025: https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/issues/4
• People found out the PR that cause this CVE back in 2017: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/pull/1152#issuecomment-3695333733
• HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475

moq/moq - Privacy issues with SponsorLink

• issues/1370
• issues/1372
• issues/1374

moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102

MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux/issues/138

MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123

NanoAdblocker/NanoCore - Ownership transfer drama

• https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362
• https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jo9wxn/open_source_development_the_fall_of_nano_defender/

NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/371

nats-io/nats-server - License change

• issues/6832
• cncf/toc/issues/1632
• CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off

nextcloud/android - Unintentional synchronization of all files

• nextcloud/android/issues/13738
• nextcloud/android/issues/13872

• Summary:
  • An upgrade to the Nextcloud Android app causes all files on the remote server to be downloaded. This results in phones running very hot, running out of storage, and racking up high data fees.

nextcloud/server - Federated Cloud Sharing data leak

• issues/51335
• Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

NixOS/foundation - Anduril sponsorship drama

• save-nix-together.org
• NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties
• NixOS/foundation/issues/110

NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4952

NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/381817

nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67

nodejs/inclusivity/issues/9

nodejs/node

• /issues/3721
• /pull/4765

nodejs/readable-stream/pull/238

nodejs/TSC/issues/8

npm/npm/issues/19883

nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter - Maintainer stepped down from the project after been asked to

• Discussion on why there is no releases from nvim-treesitter repo ended up quite intense, and eventually maintainer archived the whole repo.
• It also invovled a commit on 1st of April when maintainer dropped support for nvim 0.11 after nvim 0.12 release. nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627 nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/commit/c82bf96

obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2868

obsproject/obs-studio/pull/10043

• Single JSON change that adds another streaming service rejected by maintainer with zero commits in the last few days, citing not meeting unspecified requirements.

ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

• AI-generated contribution fails to declare AI usage upfront, contains code credited to another author, maintainers interject about the amount of work required to review such pull request

oerdnj/deb.sury.org

• archive.ph
• archive.org

omnivore-app/omnivore - Omnivore shutdown due to ElevenLabs purchase

• omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4459
• Omnivore Blog: Details on Omnivore shutting down

opal/opal/issues/941, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive,

• Dramatis Personae:
  • Coraline Ada Ehmke, @CoralineAda, GitHub, Wikipedia
  • @meh, GitHub
• Summary:
  • A core maintainer of Opal made transmisic and transphobic comments on the Internet.
  • The creator of the Contributor Covenant opened an issue to kick the maintainer out of the Opal development community.
  • Another core maintainer of Opal replied hostilely and closed the GitHub issue dismissively.
• Journalism:
  • Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • kiwifarms, archive.ph, archive.org
  • 4chan /g/ 48559828, desuarchive, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 48569752, desuarchive, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 48575151, desuarchive, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • 4chan /g/ 90214421, desuarchive, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• Summary:
  • Someone from OpenBB was scraping GitHub for emails and sending out marketing spam.
  • SinSiXX opened an issue titled "Shit SPAM" on GitHub in April 2022.
• Journalism:
  • Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

opencart/opencart

• /pull/219
• /issues/1269
• /issues/1534
• /pull/1594
• /issues/3834 (archive: 1, 2)

OpenTTD/OpenTTD/issues/7731

orgs/community/discussions/65343

palantir/tslint

• /issues/4132
• /issues/4140
• /issues/4141

P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2/issues/182

PiotrGrochowski/Consolas/issues/1 (archive: 1)

pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

Plan-Vert/open-letter

• /pull/32
• https://www.piratewires.com/p/david-heinemeier-hansson-ruby-petition-nazi-permission-slip-violence

plankanban/planka/issues/1754

PolyMC/PolyMC

• /commit/ccf2825
• /issues/656

portainer/portainer/issues/8452

• Summary:
  • Portainer developers add an obnoxious e-begging button and call the built-in begware a new feature, not a bug.
  • Kubernetes users install ad blockers in their development environment to suppress the nagware.
  • The community then creates new ad-free forks and Docker images.

PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

prettier/prettier/issues/6360, archive.org, archive.ph, ghostarchive.org

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

• Developer posts a gist of his objective grievances with Wayland, holywar in comments ensues. Rust Evangelism Strike Force derails the thread as usual.

projecthamster/hamster/issues/574

promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94

ptsteadman/notebook/pull/1, archive.org, archive.ph

pyca/cryptography/issues/5771

pypa/pipenv/issues/1050

python/mypy/issues/11492

p0deje/Maccy/issues/482, archive.is, archive.org, ghostarchive

• Some users can't figure out why they can't copy or paste with the clipboard manager and can't find any fix. Several people with the problem complain, and the problem is widespread due to the Ventura update. Finally, after much struggle, the issue is closed.

qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/9407

qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18618

• Summary:
  • Without first consulting the qBittorrent developers privately, an alt account publicly disclosed a path traversal vulnerability by opening a GitHub issue in February 2023. (Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, CVD, Wikipedia)
  • One GitHub user responded, "That doesn't respect my freedom™ to use a better client." Many reacted to the reply with a thumbs-down emoji. (Source)
  • Another GitHub user commented, "What is your problem with using civilized language?" A qBittorrent maintainer marked the comment as abuse. (Source)

rails/rails

• /commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1fc272b1aa393e6dc57
• /issues/5228
• /pull/5329
• /issues/9894

raivo-otp/ios-application

• Formerly source-available OTP authenticator for iOS suddenly deleted user data after update, and is suggested to be paywalling the backup import function.
• issues page
• /issues/328
• /discussions/369
• /discussions/372
• Hacker News

redis/redis/pull/13157

redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419

Red-Killer/shit/issues/1

resque/resque/issues/1406

restic/issues/1786

RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233 (archived: https://archive.ph/WGHMt)

rms-open-letter

rockchip-linux/mpp - LGPL license violation of distributing ffmpeg source code for more than a year

• /issues/530
• hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394327
• ffmpeg twitter on initial callout to rockchip: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1761005762233413654
• ffmpeg twitter on the dmca takedown: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984

RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

• /issues/28, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• /pull/29, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Summary:
  • Google is prototyping a browser fingerprinting API that detects the browser's build, extensions, and overall environment around it.
  • This API allows for websites to collectively exclude all browsers and users that do not use any browser, extension, or OS approved (attested) by Google themselves, essentially forcing all browser developers to register their web browser to Google for testing, and disallowing most Chromium forks.

rust-lang/team - Moderation team resignation

• /pull/671
• news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845

robertdavidgraham/masscan/issues/482

rollup/rollup/issues/2716

rubocop/rubocop/issues/8091 (archive.org, archive.ph)

SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

• Hobbyist OS developer rejects inclusivity documentation changes PR, people of gender raid the comments three years late.

signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974

• Signal developers removed a passphrase and forced users to use a fingerprint. User claims that they received money from secret service for reducing a privacy of their app.

snarfed/bridgy-fed

• Mastodon users in denial of the fact that their posts are public flood the BlueSky-ActivityPub bridge repo with opt-out requests.
• /issues/835 (https://archive.fo/8WKcs)
• /issues/841 (https://archive.fo/py75t)
• /issues/869 (https://archive.fo/4rhOc)

spatie/laravel-newsletter/pull/228

spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/66

standard/standard/issues/1381

stevemao/left-pad/issues/4

strongloop/loopback/issues/1079

syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/3484

systemd/systemd

• /issues/1143
• /issues/2402
• /issues/5644
• /issues/5755
• /issues/6237
• /issues/6259
• /issues/6369
• /pull/40954

tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com

• tailwind css reject AI/LLM optimized docs PR, and reveal that they have laid off 75% of employee just yesterday
• /pull/2388
• hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950
• tailwind css creator talk about they only have 6 months left: https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2008909129591443925
• Google AI Studio starts sponsoring tailwind css: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077

tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/issues/70

telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/96

tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99 (archive.org, archive.is)

• Tenacity, an Audacity fork, is an easy-to-use multi-track audio editor and recorder. A GitHub user named Cookiengineer was the leader and one of the developers of Tenacity.
• Some 4chan users doxxed and attempted to murder Cookiengineer in a coordinated attack campaign in July 2021. (source: theregister 2021)
• Cookiengineer quit after the harassment and stabbing from the 4chan users. (source: issues/99)

tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3273

tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127

tj-actions/changed-files - Github action leaking secrets

• issues/2464
• GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23000 projects

tldraw/tldraw

• tldraw pauses external contribution due to AI slop
• /issues/7695
• Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641042

todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/70

tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9898

torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2

twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057

twitter/scrooge/issues/222

ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2475

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

vcflib/vcflib/issues/206

ventoy/PXE/issues/106

VHSgunzo/lutris-wine/issues/15 (archive)

vimeo/player.js/issues/28

vlang/v/issues/35

voat/voat - Scalability drama

• issues/445
• issues/446

ultralytics/ultralytics - Github action vulnerability

• issues/18027
• ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Impact-Pack/issues/843
• Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer

webpack/webpack-cli/issues/1612

WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127

WICG/interventions/issues/18

WinampDesktop/winamp

• Winamp have open sourced the original player's code
• They have chosen a custom license, forbidding forks, and distributing modifications among other things
• Github users are outraged, started arguing in issues, and opened several troll pull requests
• Finally, Winamp owners delete the source code repository
• Please tone it down, I don't want Winamp to regret opensourcing
• License violates Github TOS
• Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180

• Summary
  • One of developers of Xenia, an Xbox 360 emulator, added an anti-feature that plays loud noises when loading ISO images, together with nagging messages about "piracy".
  • Said developer revealed to be a Discord moderator that happened to get tired of people asking for support without proving an ownership of the game.
  • After backlash, the developer nukes his account with other contributors cleaning up the mess later.
• Journalism
  • 4chan /g/ 94978918 (archive)
  • Kiwi Farms
  • rDrama

yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/13189 (archive)

• Summary
  • Windows 7 user complained about lacking support for his OS
  • User didn't like being told to switch to linux
  • User intensively messaged Nintendo of America to issue a Cease & Desist letter to developers
  • Opens issue when they actually did it
• Journalism
  • rDrama
  • 4chan /g/ 99245995 (archive)

ZDoom/gzdoom - Pushing untested AI-generated code to master

• Original creator and leader of the project pushes untested AI-generated code to master.
• Fellow maintainers call him out and ask him to open pull requests instead of pushing directly to master.
• He tells them to fork if they don’t like his behavior.
• issues/3395
• Ars Technica article

zedeus/nitter/issues/983

zenparsing/es-observable/pull/97

zloirock/core-js

• In May 2019, zloirock, the maintainer of the popular core-js library, added a code that printed promotional message into the postinstall script of his NPM package: issues/548
• In November 2019, @zloirock lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for causing a lethal road accident: The Register (2020)
• In February 2023, @zloirock posted 10000-word So, what's next? article about open source sustainability and maintainer burnout problems and linked it in the GitHub issue. The issue elicited hundreds of comments and thousands of thumb-ups and heart emojis from GitHub users: issues/1179
• So, what's next? article, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• GitHub issues
  • issues/548, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • issues/635, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • issues/708, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • issues/767, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • issues/1179, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
• Journalism
  • The Register (2020), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • The Register (2023), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News 22681860, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Hacker News 34780859, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • RDrama 149560, archive.is, archive.org
  • 4chan /g/ 91675671, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • DesuArchive 91675671, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
  • Kiwifarms, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

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See also

• Awesome Hilarious GitHub Repositories
• The definitive list of lists