What's the problem? Did you read the last post? Most parties "complaining" about the move to git in the ticket were actually aware it was a joke:

> And plenty of thanks to all of my co-conspirators on this issue. Yes.. even my antagonist [~jimjag] was in on the ruse :-) … the Infra team handled this with perfect aplomb. And the Directors and Exec Officers came in with a perfect level of wrath. Our Subversion teammates showed a great sense of community and circling the wagons… Thank you all for making this work!!!

The main point of April Fools is that you fool a lot of people. It's more or less in the name. Of course one should put some thought into possible consequences, but I think this one was quite harmless. (Gullible people becoming angry/shocked/etc. is considered harmless.)

Since almost everyone on the JIRA knew it was a joke, what were the negative consequences that affected you so deeply?