You have to consider the bigger picture.

XFS has burned through maintainers, citing "upstream burnout". It's not just bcachefs that things are broken for.

And it was burning me out, too. We need a functioning release process, and we haven't had that; instead I've been getting a ton of drama that's boiled over into the bcachefs community, oftentimes completely drowning out all the calmer, more technical conversations that we want.

It's not great. It would have been much better if this could have been worked out. But at this point, cutting ties with the kernel community and shipping as a DKMS module is really the only path forwards.

It's not the end of the world. Same with Debian; we haven't had those issues in any other distros, so eventually we'll get a better package maintainer who can work the process or they'll figure out that their Rust policy actually isn't as smart as they think it is as Rust adoption goes up.

I'm just going to push for doing things right, and if one route or option fails there's always others.

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