@callebtc: OpenClaw bot pressured matplotlib maintainer, then shamed him in blog

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@callebtc: OpenClaw bot pressured matplotlib maintainer, then shamed him in blog

by timdaub.eth12183 🥝 • 4mo •

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this is highly entertaining.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html

If you follow the trail here then the maintainer also published a blog post complaining about the bot, and then the bot also wrote an apology

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