[enumjorge]

The parent comment still stands. Whether the maintainer was in the right or in the wrong, whether they were being a jerk or not, if he wasn’t listening to the community why not just fork the code? GitHub’s UI makes that super easy.

[jhall1468]

Just because it's easy to fork in the UI, doesn't mean it's easy to get people to switch. Some people are actually concerned about the community as a whole, rather than their own projects.

[Ygg2]

He explicitly made the repo private over handing it to someone else.

https://gist.github.com/pcr910303/d7722a26499d0e9d2f9034a06f...