It’s a bit sad, we’re all on the same OSS team in the end. I’ve never found it that difficult to keep it cut and dry on software repos, I don’t know why people don’t just save the venom for forums and social media like the good ol days.
Here’s lattner telling some guy off. There’s none that I can think of that are super memeworthy or anything. It’s usually just insecure devs with a little Dunning Kruger cocktail in the mix.
Certainly not anybody bothering dozens of people manually, for months, like in the link. That’s pretty wild.
It went down in 2014 and the guy vanished never to be heard of again.
They can keep the noise and disruption of the craziest spammers to a minimum.