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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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criticalfault ◴[04 Jul 25 17:57 UTC] No.44466573[source]▶
I've been following this for a while now.

Kent is in the wrong. Having a lead position in development I would kick Kent of the team.

One thing is to challenge things. What Kent is doing is something completely different. It is obvious he introduced a feature, not only a Bugfix.

If the rules are set in a way that rc1+ gets only Bugfixes, then this is absolutely clear what happens with the feature. Tolerating this once or twice is ok, but Kent is doing this all the time, testing Linus.

Linus is absolutely in the right to kick this out and it's Kent's fault if he does so.

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Pet_Ant ◴[04 Jul 25 18:07 UTC] No.44466668[source]▶
Why take it out of the kernel? Why not just make someone responsible the maintainer so they can say "no, next release" to his shenanigans? It can't be the license.
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1. nolist_policy ◴[04 Jul 25 18:15 UTC] No.44466729[source]▶
Kent can appoint a suitable maintainer if he wishes. That's his job, not Linus'.