Can someone provide more context please. All I see are pull requests as resignations with little additional description. I don't see how we can have a meaningful discussion around that.
All these threads seem to talk obliquely about other posts, context, etc and it's not clear to outsiders "what happened".
Thankfully it appears to not be on the frontpage anymore. This feels like average twitter drama and not something that belongs on HN. Without concrete points there's nothing to really discuss other than speculate on what caused this particular drama.