A lot of people are arguing about whether locking down access was justified to resolve the security issues. I guess it's debatable. But I don't see any excuse

A lot of people are arguing about whether locking down access was justified to resolve the security issues. I guess it's debatable. But I don't see any excuse for not putting out a statement when you do it. You have to know there will be a fight, and you will look like the bad guy. Perhaps I could see directly communicating to the maintainers that you expect that they'll be reinstated. But to say nothing? To let the post by duckinator float around for days without having a "we did this because of security concerns, we want to work together and find a resolution..." It's incomprehensible that they thought this would go well.