[sequoia]

This seems like a non-story. Original author says "please add my name back," current maintainers say "OK will do." What am I missing?

[scarejunba]

Well, I got that little piece of history from the Gabriel Falcao about how it was all formed which is really neat so that makes it worthwhile.

I think we usually expect these to be someone's cry for help but here it's just an interesting tale. I liked it.

EDIT: Responding here due to rate-limit, I think you're right (on reflection) and I don't like what that means.

[sequoia]

Agreed; it was quite interesting. I only posted my above comment because calling this thread to the attention of hackernews seemed a bit like trying to stir up controversy.

[sebazzz]

This is probably posted as a "discussion piece" on HN. The same like years old news or Wikipedia articles are submitted.

[bootloop]

It was posted before anyone else then the author commented on the github issue.

[MichaelDickens]

For what it's worth, the author was not reinstated until after this had already been posted to Hacker News.