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fefe23 | 1 year ago

Why didn't they block his access to the mailing list instead?

It's not his code that people felt hurt by, was it?

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NewJazz|1 year ago

Pull requests happen through the mailing list, fwiw.

yarg|1 year ago

Yeah, it kinda was - https://lore.kernel.org/all/172816780614.3194359.10913571563...

He was refusing to contribute his code according to the rules (by which everyone is meant to abide), avoiding regression testing and creating bugs.

And he certainly didn't help his case with tone deaf comments like this:

> If you're so convinced you know best, I invite you to start writing your own filesystem. Go for it.

koverstreet|1 year ago

Linus was completely going off there.

There are no instances anyone can point to where I've caused regressions in other subsystems, in the course of developing bcachefs. I have had people introduce regressions into my code without following proper channels, though.