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Maybe Linus should have acted sooner but this is exactly what happened. Linus refused to bend the rules for Kent and things got heated and eventually Kent was b
by jeltz 1y ago
Maybe Linus should have acted sooner but this is exactly what happened. Linus refused to bend the rules for Kent and things got heated and eventually Kent was banned from submitting patches and Bcachefs was removed.
- dlivingston 1y agoWhat's the backstory here? I'm totally out of the loop.
- jeltz 1y agoKent wanted to merge new features after the merge window had been closed (bundled with a bug fix) and Linus said no and since this was not the first time Kent tried to do something like that people got angry at him. And since Kent refused to apologize for repeatedly breaking the rules things got heated.
- dralley 1y agoIn Kent's opinion the features were important to maintaining greater data integrity and recovering from various problems. Nobody else agreed and Kent wasn't taking no for an answer even from Linus.
- dlivingston 1y agoI see, thanks. I came across this summary which echoes what you wrote: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-616-Bcachefs-Late-Feature https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-616-Bcachefs-Late-Featur...