Programmer accidentally sends GitHub notifications to about 400,000 people

It has been reported that a programmer inserted an inappropriate mention in a GitHub pull request and accidentally delivered a notification to about 400,000 people.

Good Looking by Rohith-sreedharan · Pull Request # 24 · EpicGames / Signup · GitHub

GitHub user sends notification to 400k users | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

The event happened in the Epic Games repository. Programmer Rohith Sreedharan notified a large number of users that he mistakenly sent a pull request with the three tags '@ EpicGames / artv2-admin', '@ EpicGames / developers' and '@EpicTeamAdmin'. Was sent. According to gak, the number of people who received the notification was 396,463 .

Sreedharan quickly noticed the mistake, but the users who received the notification left a lot of comments. On the social news site Hacker News, there is a comment that the situation has deteriorated exponentially because there was a user who made a 'Reply-All' to a pull request that was known to be incorrect . ..

Sreedharan apologizes on Twitter. In response, comments such as 'Rather, you found a flaw in the system' and 'You found the best answer when asked,'What was the biggest mistake you made?'' It has been.

Am extremely sorry, I wasn't knowing that would be tagging a 400k members, Extremely sorry for the spam from whole heartedly, I Apologize to all the team including @EpicGames and @github , never expected this would happen, thanks for notifying me! I promise it won't happen again

— Rohith Sreedharan (@Rohithaditya) June 5, 2022