how about "any devs" or even "novice devs". as if there's some class of super-devs that's immune to versioning mistakes, ffs.
All phpers are now offended? haha, must be true than!
lolwut? had it said "ruby" or "python", there'd be a shortage of tear gas and cars would be burning in the streets.
Let's just abstract away the details and say something like:
"...sometimes <arbitrary_programming_language> <arbitrary_programming_job> commit configuration files..."