So some Twitter grand inquisitors, whose names always seem to appear if individuals are targeted, discovered some unpleasant details about someone's past.

Code quality (especially when written under pressure) is unrelated to that and I've seen horrible code from from model citizens who check all the Twitter boxes of goodness.

It seems very dangerous to contribute to open source these days if you are not in the right Twitter cliques.

The nice thing is that the FreeBSD developers who were interviewed apparently remained fair and said that the target had produced high quality code before.