[ssddanbrown]

Yeah, Docspen was a copy of BookStack. Was a really awkward and difficult thing to handle as maintainer with BookStack being my first popular OS project. It was done very purposeful in an odd way. I remember that issues, filed by BookStack users, were being re-created on the docs pen repo by (potentially fake?) docspen maintainers with pretty much the same text.

Yoginth would then commonly create issues on the BookStack repo, many of which would be issues with DocsPen and not BookStack, and would email me asking to deploy new releases. I remember being at-a-loss of how to handle it, I raised my concerns [1] and asked for advice on reddit[2]. The docspen repo then suddenly moved to GitLab before being hidden. Yoginth then deleted all issues and comments made in the BookStack repo, or this may have been just part of a full account deletion.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180130085921/https://github.co... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/7v7yl5/advice_n...

[prashnts]

Interesting. I have a hunch that this all is an attempt to game Google Summer of Code to win sponsorship. I think the sponsors look for open source contributions, and they created all the copies, organisations etc. to make it seem like significant profile. It’s crazy that people would go to such lengths. Like you said, it’s very odd, and sloppy.