I was very up front about where we were at.

A lot of things were tried, people did try to mediate.

The particularly galling thing though was when I finally started looking - post split - comparing bcachefs PRs to other subsystems and especially XFS - I was being more conservative with what I considered a critical bugfix.

There was never a clear statement on what the issue was. What you guys got in public was about as much as I got.

All I can say is - going fast when you're stabilizing and getting bugfixes out the door is what you can and should be doing when you've invested in test coverage, test automation, keeping the codebase clean and asserted, and building up a community that works well together on testing and shaking things out.

I genuinely do not know what they were thinking.