Whilst such things have been common in large corporation office political culture for decades, too see it play out in the wild like this in open source, is just shocking.

Sadly it does seem to be becoming more and more, more since some view open source/projects as potential revenue streams and be it irc, or some carefully nurtured project that has grown over a lifetime, to be rug pulled by such `political games` all in the end for what I dare say be some agenda greed. It just saddens us all.