You are not getting the point about this situation.
The rants that are coming in are not about what has happened, but what could have happened.
Imagine a situation if somebody had deleted all the data or worse committed malicious code to important repos. And then used it create a bigger mess later it would have been disastrous.
If this can't be taken seriously I don't know what can be.
What exactly would you require to have happened to demonstrate that github was taking the problem "seriously" enough?
Should they have shut down github.com entirely. Tweeted in all caps every 15 minutes until they fixed the problem? Called a televised press conference? What?
I'm just pointing out the seriousness of the situation.
Punishing Egor Homakov in this case is a classic example of 'No good deed goes unpunished'. Had this vulnerability been found by somebody with evil on his mind. We would be having a very different debate now.
We all make mistakes. And I don't really blame Github for this. But we must at no cost downplay this incident.
The rants that are coming in are not about what has happened, but what could have happened.
Imagine a situation if somebody had deleted all the data or worse committed malicious code to important repos. And then used it create a bigger mess later it would have been disastrous.
If this can't be taken seriously I don't know what can be.