[ShinyLeftPad]

> How did it go from "He even performed a backup/mirror of several dozen of our repositories." to "He deleted part of our repository from GitHub

What's unclear? This guy was part of the project for some time and got maintainer trust. Then he brings in his mate. His mate is a crap person and gets kicked out of the project. The original guy then goes bananas and nukes stuff.

[crote]

I have been part of the HN community for a while as well. I don't have admin access to its servers. That's the unclear part. How does it go from "offering to host it, which is refused" and "read-only mirror" to... this?

[account42]

Being a commenter on a forum is different from being a contributor to an open source project.

[ShinyLeftPad]

I understood that he was part of the team not just community. Think dang, not a random commenter. I'm pretty sure mods here have priveleges we don't.