It's a terrible situation and we failed on many levels on this one. We will improve our process from here and conduct a more full post mortem.
From this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674671 to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36663735 there's no other way to describe it.
The fact that InfluxDB has been around for 9 years at this point, and raised over 100 million dollars in the process, only makes this even more baffling.