| ▲ | rurban 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Once the BCacheFS maintainer behaves and the code is maintained upstream again, we will re-enable... (As IMO, it is a useful feature.) How cynical. It's the kernel maintainer, not the bcachefs maintainer, who does not behave and has a huge history of unprofessional behavior for decades. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nicman23 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
How cynical. It's the bcachefs maintainer, not the kernel maintainer, who does not behave and has a huge history of unprofessional behavior for decades. it is not like he was not explicitly warned. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | happymellon 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The bcachefs maintainer has added new features during bugfix windows, and lied about it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | boricj 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The original author later sent an apology email explaining that it sounded too harsh in English and it wasn't meant to be offensive: https://lwn.net/ml/all/bece61a0-b818-4d59-b340-860e94080f0d@... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | fj23Z741GAh 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
There was a time when Linus encouraged critics of "unprofessional behavior" to snap back at him: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/374 That is a reasonable compromise. Except when someone actually snaps back at him. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | self_awareness 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The reason is that people like Linus, because he's entertaining. And people don't like Kent, because he opposed Linus, who is liked. That's all there is too it. Like in some high school. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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