On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 09:22:55PM GMT, Carl E. Thompson wrote: > Kent, I'm not a kernel developer I'm just a user that is impressed with > bcachefs, uses it on his personal systems, and eagerly waits for new > features. I am one of the users who's been using bcachefs for years and has > never lost any data using it. > > However I am going to be blunt: as someone who designs and builds Linux-based > storage servers (well, I used to) as part of their job I would never, ever > consider using bcachefs professionally as it is now and the way it appears to > be developed currently. It is simply too much changed too fast without any > separation between what is currently stable and working for customers and new > development. Your work is excellent but **process** is equally and sometimes > even more important. Some of the other hats I've worn professionally include > as a lead C/C++ developer and as a product release manager so I've learned > from very painful experience that large projects absolutely **must** have > strict rules for process. I'm sure you realize that. Linus is not being a > jerk about this. Just a couple of months ago Linus had to tell you the exact > same thing he's telling you again here. And that wasn't the first time. Is > your plan to just continue to break the rules and do whatever the heck you > want until
You guys are freaked out because I'm moving quickly and you don't have visibility into my own internal process, that's all. I've got a test clusture, a community testing my code before I send it to Linus, and a codebase that I own and know like the back of my hand that's stuffed with assertions. And, the changes in question are algorithmically fairly simple and things that I have excellent test coverage for. These are all factors that let me say, with confidence, that there really aren't any bugs in this this pull request. Look, there will always be a natural tension between "strict rules and processes" vs. "weighing the situations and using your judgement". There isn't a right or wrong answer as to where on the spectrum we should be, we just all have to use our brains. No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.
