Read the whole thread before giving out about this lad. He did change his mind:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/55717...
I guess it was really just a case of a bad day after all but he handled it gracefully in the end. This recent post clarifies things: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/55717...
And frankly some of the comments in that bug are going the route of personal attacks against the maintainter, which I don't think is very productive.
It's the people that haven't experienced it yet that are at risk, and you can't tell those 'don't do that then' preemptively.