[tjpd]

Isn’t this the developer’s or Go’s security issue first before it’s a GH facepalm? GH doesn’t make any representations about the provenance or the safety of the code on their site. It is the user and toolchain that’s making those potentially dangerous assumption, no? Doesn’t blocking id reuse open them up to a kind of ID squatting and DOS?

[edem]

That's the exact reason that they do have a name squatting policy: https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/

I am definitely against this nonsense. Don't depend on some third party for your solutions who never said that their urls are here to stay. Quite the contrary!

[mcphage]

Huh. Someone once offered to buy my github username from me... I had no idea that was explicitly against their policy. (Not that I said yes, or had any interest in selling)

[edem]

But if you wish to use a name GitHub will mediate between you and the owner. Never worked for me but it can happen.