A few months ago someone created an issue to make a change to a readme file in a repo for some code of mine. Wasn’t anything big, was just a personal project. T

A few months ago someone created an issue to make a change to a readme file in a repo for some code of mine. Wasn’t anything big, was just a personal project. They wanted me to change “the good developer comments his code” to “her code”. I said “sure, I don’t maintain this code anymore but feel free to pull and submit a MR and I’ll pull it in”. They never did. I eventually forgot about the request entirely-because again: I hadn’t maintained the code in quite some time and honestly I only kept it around as a portfolio item. Months later a second person came and asked the same thing, along with other various additional changes. I invited them too to pull the code, make the change, and submit a MR. Neither party ever did. I went into the readme and did a find and replace. Merely feeling charitable. Soon I began getting requests to change it back from “her” to “his” and I just made the repo private. No one had ever forked the code, I never even had any issues opened for anything else since the repo was a single-page website template for a local football club I was hosting on GH pages and easily blends into the sea of other code repos. The only interaction the code ever saw was from people wanting me to change a readme file and otherwise probably didn’t give a damn about the code or the template I had “released”. I’ve started calling these actors “development provocateurs”.