Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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.

bcachefs is experimental and Kent writes in the LWN comments that nothing would get done if he didn't develop it this way. Filesystems are a massive undertaking and you can have all the rules you want. It doesn't help if nothing gets developed.

It would be interesting how strict the rules are in the Linux kernel for other people. Other projects have nepotistic structures where some developers can do what they want but others cannot.

Anyway, if Linus had developed the kernel with this kind of strictness from the beginning, maybe it wouldn't have taken off. I don't see why experimental features should follow the rules for stable features.