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The Wireguard debacle scared me off from FreeBSD. It seems they put too much trust in committers and don't have a solid enough review process.
by themerone 5y ago
The Wireguard debacle scared me off from FreeBSD. It seems they put too much trust in committers and don't have a solid enough review process.
- loeg 5y agoThat Ars article is so distorted that it should best be seen as creative fiction.
- themerone 5y agoDo you have a link to the real story?
- danachow 5y agoWho mentioned anything about an Ars article? I read the whole debacle on mailing lists and Twitter. That was enough to form my own conclusions and I did not come away from that impressed with the FreeBSD development environs. It definitely flys in the face that somehow FreeBSD upholds technical excellence above business interests as is being claimed in the article.
- kevans91 5y agoIt was quite blown out of proportion even outside of the published articles.
- Melatonic 5y agoWhat was the debacle?
- themerone 5y agoFreeBSD 13 came very close to shipping with a WireGaurd implementation with many bugs an vulerabilites that were quickly identified by the creator of the WireGaurd prototocal shortly after learning about the update. Attempts were made to fix it, but they eventually decided to ship 13.0 without wiregaurd. It was very policitcal because the company that sponsored the development had already promised the feature to customers.
- frankjr 5y agoFor those who missed it: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/006494.html https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/00649...