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This is a curated collection of "dramatic" GitHub interactions.
This repo is intended to point out comical interactions 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 allow participants to take a step back from the drama and say to themselves, "damn, I need to chill".
This repository is github-drama/github-drama. The GitHub Drama community forked and created this repository in 2022. The ancestry is nikolas/github-drama. Relatives include paradite/github-dramas.
Go into a GitHub project's issues, and sort by "Most commented" or "Most reactions".
There's no agreement on what's considered dramatic enough to be included in github-drama. Everyone has a different sense of humor. 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.
This repository follows the guideline that if anyone in the thread appears to be getting worked up about something, it can be considered for inclusion here. If a repository's maintainer has locked conversation on a thread, that's also a good indicator that it could be included here.
albertodemichelis/squirrel/pull/67
audacity/audacity/pull/835, ghostarchive
angular/angular-cli/issues/1252
ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098
atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588 (archive: 1, 2)
AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
ayojs/ayo/issues/36 (archive.ph) (archive.org)
bower/bower
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.
CVarisco/community-story/pull/1
dear-github/dear-github/issues/107
docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910
doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource
dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive.org
- Malicious owner takeover of npm package (@right9ctrl)
- Notification spam of 400k GitHub users due to tagging @EpicGames/developers on GitHub
- ycombinator
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
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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
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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.
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DMCA takedown notices on GitHub:
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GitHub issues:
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Journalism on Kiwifarms:
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Journalism on Rdrama:
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Journalism on Reddit:
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Journalism on 4chan /g/:
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korn shell - ksh
- original ksh kinda blew up - ksh fallout.
- original ksh rewound.
- ksh-community stalled.
- ksh93 seems to be active now though.
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:
github/dmca
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)
irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1227
jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805
jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
jdm-contrib/justdelete.me/issues/86 (archive: 1)
jquery/download.jqueryui.com
JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/398
jquery/download.jqueryui.com/issues/359
jquery/download.jqueryui.com/issues/390
katharostech/bevy_retrograde/issues/1
kelseyhightower/nocode/issues/50
kmmbvnr/django-jenkins/issues/349
lerna/lerna
- /pull/1616
- /pull/1619
- /issues/1622
- /issues/1625
- /issues/1628
- /issues/1630
- /pull/1631
- /issues/1632
- /pull/1633
spatie/laravel-newsletter/pull/228
Microsoft/Terminal/issues/10362
Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/3622
Microsoft/vscode
Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/673
moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102
mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/169a05b9764674b6ad3fb1c6ea1cbf3c7edf8db0
mozilla-jetpack/jpm/pull/357/commits
MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux/issues/138
MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/371
nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67
nodejs/node
nodejs/readable-stream/pull/238
obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2868
oerdnj/deb.sury.org
opal/opal/issues/941, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive,
- Dramatis Personae:
- 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:
opencart/opencart
- /pull/219
- /issues/1269
- /issues/1534
- /pull/1594
- /issues/3834 (archive: 1, 2)
palantir/tslint
P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2/issues/182
PiotrGrochowski/Consolas/issues/1 (archive: 1)
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
p0deje/Maccy/issues/482, archive.is, archive.org, ghostarchive
- The itoddlers 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/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
RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233 (archived: https://archive.ph/WGHMt)
RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
- /issues/28
- /pull/29
- 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
rubocop/rubocop/issues/8091 (archive.org, archive.ph)
Slackadays/Clipboard/issues/14, archive.is, archive.org, ghostarchive
- Summary:
- The issue evolves from being a straightforward in-progress task to something completely unexpected.
- A maintainer on Arch User Repository comes out of the woodwork to elaborate on a problem specific to Arch Linux. Everyone involved goes back and forth because the key to the issue is non-obvious and a real hack due to how Fedora searches paths.
- The original issue opener manually compiles the clipboard manager and posts cryptic logs until someone puts a patch into place. However, every window gets squished and jumps around whenever Sway WM users copy text due to an unpleasant feature inherent in Wayland.
spatie/laravel-newsletter/pull/228
spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/66
strongloop/loopback/issues/1079
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)
tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127
todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/70
ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2475
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
VHSgunzo/lutris-wine/issues/15
webpack/webpack-cli/issues/1612
WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127
zenparsing/es-observable/pull/97
zloirock/core-js, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive.org
- Dramatis Personae
- Denis Pushkarev, @zloirock, github, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- Summary
- The Register reported, "In November 2019, Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the popular core-js library, lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for driving his motorcycle into two pedestrians, killing one of them." Source: The Register (2020), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- The Register reported, "he served about ten months in prison in 2020 for colliding with two pedestrians on his motorcycle, killing one of them." Source: The Register (2023), archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- Zloirock spammed the console of numerous developers who indirectly imported core-js. (Source)
- Zloirock posted a 10000-word screed and opened an issue on GitHub titled "So, what's next?" in February 2023. The GitHub issue elicited hundreds of comments and thousands of thumb-ups and heart emojis from GitHub users. (Source)
- For details, read Zloirock's 10000-word screed, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- GitHub issues
- 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
@webdevdrama on Twitter