It may seem like that on the surface, but you should recognise that these sorts of situations seem to follow Kent around.

So either Kent is on a righteous crusade against unreasonable processes within the Kernel, Debian, and every other large software project he interacts with. Or there's something about the way Kent interacts with these projects that causes friction.

I like Bcachefs, I think Kent is a very talented developer, but I'm not going to pretend that he is innocent in all this.

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o11c 4 days ago | parent [-]

OTOH, the only named projects I've seen are Linux and Debian, which are 2 of the most toxic projects I'm aware of (I'm pretty sure the C++ standards committee beats the two of them combined).

But the problem with comparisons is that even if you're better than nuclear waste being dumped into the aquifer, you still might be enough to light a river on fire.

	▲	JdeBP 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've been involved in C++ standardization. In my country's national body, it is nothing like what goes on in Linux kernel development, even when there are strong disagreements amongst members.