So the gist of this post is that Justin didn't like how old the Bash logo was, emailed the current maintainer (Chet Ramey) and asked to redesign it. I buy this story entirely. I've reached out to maintainers of old, critical projects before and they're usually super responsive and friendly.

EDIT: As confirmed by Justin below, this was entirely legit and not associated with any of the rest of the thread at all.