I'm not sure I disagree with those specific examples as much as it may seem.
I do think that if you're not shithubbing, you have a level of responsibility which perhaps[1] Gruber and TJ (the maintainer in the second link) weren't taking. And it's not clear to me how much you can claim to be shithubbing if you have lots of users and are discussing the project direction and taking pull requests. (It looks like TJ has since handed over maintenance of n to someone else, which I'd say was the right decision.) The third link also seems to be talking mostly about projects which can't be described as shithubbing.
The main thing I want to get at, is that you should be able to put something online without having to take responsibility for it. (Perhaps we need to distinguish "online" from "released".) That doesn't mean you never have any responsibility.
[1] To be clear: I don't know much about these two incidents, but the actual details aren't particularly important right now. I'm discussing them to bounce intuitions off them, not to pass judgment on anyone.
I do think that if you're not shithubbing, you have a level of responsibility which perhaps[1] Gruber and TJ (the maintainer in the second link) weren't taking. And it's not clear to me how much you can claim to be shithubbing if you have lots of users and are discussing the project direction and taking pull requests. (It looks like TJ has since handed over maintenance of n to someone else, which I'd say was the right decision.) The third link also seems to be talking mostly about projects which can't be described as shithubbing.
The main thing I want to get at, is that you should be able to put something online without having to take responsibility for it. (Perhaps we need to distinguish "online" from "released".) That doesn't mean you never have any responsibility.
[1] To be clear: I don't know much about these two incidents, but the actual details aren't particularly important right now. I'm discussing them to bounce intuitions off them, not to pass judgment on anyone.