I get the message but this is one of those things where you should have YOUR explanation ready before you pause everything...
Granted that's understandable if they didn't choose the timeline.
Granted that's understandable if they didn't choose the timeline.
"Not DMCA" and "not GitHub" is plenty already. But maybe it's a possible malware infiltration, or having something unbecoming committed to the repo by mistake, or anything else that might warrant denying public access for some time to prevent damage.
Also the project is being shut down. Why should they care about community reaction?
* note: all fields have bullshit; this is a recent learning of mine -- unlearning, rather, of a single day of a communications class which left me with the impression that many of us here seem to have of soft sciences: all bullshit by default.