The quote in the article is not what the maintainer actually wrote. What they wrote was:
Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?
Seems they should have attributed correctly but they weren’t as dismissive as the blog makes it seem.
They are waiting for a committee to release their investigation first. That is supposed to happen by 11/17.
They dovthis because as obvious as it is that Santos is a crook its just as “obvious” to republicans that Biden is guilty of who knows what.