Yeah definitely some sour grapes in there but scaling up FOSS grants incentivizes grant orgs to find efficiencies. The difference between 'efficiencies' and 'shortcuts' is a matter of perspective.
I don't have any hard evidence and I don't expect to ever find it but if you follow the incentives it's not a stretch to believe this happens.
I've seen folks low key take shots at me for my github profile having 'fake projects' and 'fake commits'. Those are lazy takes confirming a preexisting bias. These folks don't yet grok that green squares are a gameable metric. We should help them understand by gaming them harder in a more widespread manner.
I also think there's a big opportunity to grow ngit and similar projects by introducing similar gameable metrics. I hope someone looks into it seriously.
