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by yuriko 2116 days ago
Title is misleading
1 comments

Maybe, maybe not.

My immediate reaction was that I was about to read some scandalous anti-semitism (as I'm sure you did too). The truth is a little more bureaucratic with no malice or discrimination from either contributor (I won't comment on the law itself!).

The title is a little click-baity but I'm not sure how it could be more accurate?

How about “Maintainer forced to reject PR due to Israel-Iran conflict”?
It appears to be a decision by a package owner (armancodes), based on Iranian law. The title sounds like it was Github's decision

current title: "GitHub: PR won't be merged because..."