I am concerned the primary purpose of this being on the frontpage is shaming someone.
I'm a big fan of semver, but I also test whenever I do a rm Gemfile.lock; bundle install (I've only managed a fairly small nodejs app in production, but I'd be surprised if people really don't test something like that). So he did something we think is bad -- but plenty of beginning engineers do this all the time, and while the discussion on github is appropriate, I'm not sure it belongs here on HN. People shouldn't be afraid of making something useful (as underscore is) because of the potential for extremely public shaming.
I'm a big fan of semver, but I also test whenever I do a rm Gemfile.lock; bundle install (I've only managed a fairly small nodejs app in production, but I'd be surprised if people really don't test something like that). So he did something we think is bad -- but plenty of beginning engineers do this all the time, and while the discussion on github is appropriate, I'm not sure it belongs here on HN. People shouldn't be afraid of making something useful (as underscore is) because of the potential for extremely public shaming.