I've been in a similar situation, letting everyone know I was fired. Apparently in the US this has a negative connotation, and they use "being let go" (or something confusing as "handing in/being handed your 2 weeks notice", a concept completely unknown here). Here we only have one word for "your company terminating your employment", and there is no negative connotation associated with it. This can be difficult for non-natives. We can come across very weird or less intelligent.

> If the above offended anyone, I sincerely apology them.

Unless this was tongue-in-cheek, this kind of proves the point that language was the cause. The apology is a good move in any case.

The revised version, "Once the bcachefs maintainer conforms to the agreed process and the code is maintained upstream again" is still lecturing and piling on, as the LWN comments say:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037496/

It is the classic case of CoC people and their inner circle denouncing someone, and subsequently the entire Internet keeps piling on the target.