Thanks for the response. Mistakes happen, human or computer, not the end of the world, and I get it. I was just more curious to know if there is a manual process for this type of forking that was not being vetted via the bot, and to bring another example to your attention.
My guess is that they were going through a checklist of what to do when releasing open source changes, and didn't understand what they were doing.
A lot of why we've had to put some guardrails in our system has been to point people to guidance and training on open source.
I've sent the team that works on this repository an e-mail, but I don't expect to get a response on the holiday.