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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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sevg ◴[30 Aug 25 17:44 UTC] No.45076556[source]▶
Is it just me or does Kent seem self-destructively glued to his own idea of how kernel development should work?

I don’t doubt that people on all sides have made mis-steps, but from the outside it mostly just seems like Kent doesn’t want to play by the rules (despite having been given years of patience).

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1. mook ◴[31 Aug 25 03:40 UTC] No.45080172[source]▶
I think he's too exposed to users reports, because anybody that shows up is in a potential data loss situation. So he's very focused on making everything as bug free as possible, and getting frustrated that people with different focus are not propagating the fixes as fast as possible.

Almost makes me think the distros light-forking it to just change the name (IceWeasel style) so the support requests don't get to him will help… probably not, though, because people will still go there because they want to recover their data.