Yes, The Great Committer was an April Fools' gag. I didn't expect anyone to actually believe it, but it gathered a few laughs, so I'm content.
Far more successful was the FreeBSD and NetBSD to merge gag that Dan Langille and I pulled back in 2003. The United Nations Fretbsd.org site has long since expired, but Dan archived it. (Eight years later, and I still giggle madly about the moose in that one.) That one actually sucked in a reporter from an reputable tech site, who pestered Dan and I...
Published on April 04, 2011 07:46