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github-drama (community fork #2)

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

Contributing to github-drama

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.

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.

How do I find drama?

Go into a GitHub project's issues, and sort by "Most commented" or "Most reactions".

What qualifies as drama?

There's no agreement on what's considered dramatic enough to be included in github-drama. There are plenty of "non-serious" GitHub threads, where the usual GitHub politeness gives way to reaction GIFs and one-word replies, turning into something like a 4chan thread, but less funny. Common signs of drama: many unconstructive comments, many downvote reactions, removed or hidden comments. If a repository's maintainer has locked conversation on a thread, that's also a good indicator that it could be included here.

Writing guidelines

If there are non-github links that describe the drama, consider adding them. High priority external links to add are articles in popular journalistic media.
Adding drama summary is not mandatory. In the simplest case the entry can just consist of the single link to the dramatic thread. Summary can be helpful when there are multiple links that need to be logically grouped to better understand the drama.
When drama summary is added, it must be as neutral as possible. Describe facts and events, but do not assess drama participants' actions, advocate for any political/ideological views, or use a negative speech. When in doubt, leave out any details and make summary as short as possible.

actix/actix-web

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

audacity/audacity/pull/835, ghostarchive

angular/angular-cli/issues/1252

ansible/ansible/issues/10530

ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098

ariya/phantomjs/issues/15345

aspnet/Home/issues/2022

atom/tree-view/pull/804

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

audacity/audacity/pull/835

AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

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

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

badges/shields/pull/9474

bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

bower/bower

bower/bower/pull/1748

chrisaljoudi/uBlock - Ownership transfer/donations drama

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

CVarisco/community-story/pull/1

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

dear-github/dear-github/issues/107

Delgan/loguru/issues/563

django/django/pull/2692

docker/docker/pull/31075

docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910

docker/for-mac/issues/1120

doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource

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

Malicious owner takeover of npm package (@right9ctrl)

dotnet/cli/issues/3093

dotnet/csharplang/issues/993

dotnet/maui/issues/35

dotnet/roslyn/pull/3507

dotnet/roslyn - Tabs vs. spaces drama

dotnet/runtime/issues/27939

dotnet/runtime/issues/92849

dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

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

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:

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

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:
GitHub issues:
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:
Journalism on 4chan /g/:

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

flutter/flutter/issues/11609

ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/711

github/dmca

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

google/googletest

GoogleCloudPlatform/click-to-deploy/pull/209

greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1175

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

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

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

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

irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1227

jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805

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

Jguer/yay/issues/496

joyent/libuv/pull/1015

jquery/download.jqueryui.com

JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/398

katharostech/bevy_retrograde/issues/1

keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725

kenwheeler/slick/issues/681

KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

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

lerna/lerna

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

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:

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

Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/673

mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/2054

moment/moment/issues/1407

moq/moq - Privacy issues with SponsorLink

moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102

MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux/issues/138

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

NanoAdblocker/NanoCore - Ownership transfer drama

NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/371

nextcloud/android - Unintentional synchronization of all files

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.

NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4952

nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67

nodejs/inclusivity/issues/9

nodejs/node

nodejs/readable-stream/pull/238

nodejs/TSC/issues/8

npm/npm/issues/19883

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.

oerdnj/deb.sury.org

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

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:

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

OpenTTD/OpenTTD/issues/7731

orgs/community/discussions/65343

palantir/tslint

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

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

pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

PolyMC/PolyMC

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

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

resque/resque/issues/1406

restic/issues/1786

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

rms-open-letter

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.

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

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

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

VHSgunzo/lutris-wine/issues/15

vimeo/player.js/issues/28

voat/voat - Scalability drama

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

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)

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
Journalism

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