> Whether or not rails' defaults are sane is a completely separate question. Egor acted out against GH when he was ignored by rails dev. Two entirely different parties.

100% agree here. The Rails devs may have ignored his issue, but GitHub are the victims here. Why not email GitHub and inform them, on the provision they communicate the fix they just made?

Doing this and saying "P.S. GH sorry, I was bored" is not acceptable.