true, that is suspicious as well. A person that hasn't even created any bugs or issues suddenly has a big problem with the speed of development? Especially the way this was phrased: "You ignore the many
patches bit rotting away on this mailing list. Right now you choke your repo.
Why wait until 5.4.0 to change maintainer? Why delay what your repo needs?"
"Why delay what your repo needs?" This sounds like scammer lingo
Wow, people suck. I almost hope it's fake profiles urging the maintainer to take on a new member as a long con. Because I sincerely hope Jigar Kumar is not a real person behaving like that towards volunteers working for free.
I would put money on government hackers. They're the sort of people that have the time to pull something like this off. Frankly I'm really surprised it isn't more common, though maybe it is and these guys were just super blatant. I would have expected more plausible deniability.
At the time I thought it was just rude, but maybe this is when it all started.