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Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] irotsoma 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it would be nice if it was easier for devs to just turn over the project to an "official" fork. Unfortunately, I'm sure that would get abused by scammers taking over projects forcefully and adding in malware before anyone notices.

[–] 9point6 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're spot on with the latter, I've come across a few projects over the years where the ownership is transferred and it's then loaded up with malware or even just instantly abandoned again because the new owner just wants it on their GitHub to get a job or something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've come across a few projects over the years where the ownership is transferred and it's then loaded up with malware

See: The Great Suspender

The original developer sold the repo to a new, anonymous maintainer. The new maintainer abandoned the repo but continued updating the Chrome Web Store version of the addon. That version eventually got delisted by Google for including malware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I am pretty sure you can transfer ownership of a repo on GitHub.