Poettering downvoted 5 (at time of this writing) times (github.com)

Context?

I've seen this a lot on the systemd GitHub Issues. A bug is reported, Pottering describes it as not a bug and closes it himself, then everyone else disagrees and says that it needs to be fixed.

Why is this on HN?

As strange of a question this is, can we just fire Poettering from FOSS projects altogether? He seems to just cause endless drama and not actually improve the OS all of our respective industries depend on.

The news here is the systemd behavior and debate over whether it's a bug, not whether Poettering is being downvoted. The title needs to be changed.

Suggest changing title to that of the item: "systemd can't handle ... user name startswith number".