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Originally posted by yump View PostIt wouldn't be a bcachefs thread with fitzie prosecuting his labor-intensive vendetta against Kent Overstreet...
Imagine if you had a guy who read all your work-related email and wrote up weekly commentaries that cast aspersions on your character, like some kind of Truman Show episode recap.
Here is my vendetta: I've been sponsoring this project for many years (as just a patreon donor), and now he's screwing up, turning his community to a defender of his bad behavior, getting senior linux developers to dislike him, and probably ruining chances for companies to consider engaging with him. What is worse is while he doesn't seem like a bad person, he really spreads a lot of negativity in the world. He needs to change.
Heres something else that I wrote earlier.
Sadly I consider his attitude to be a real risk to the adoption of bcachefs. I was a fan and patreon support of bcachefs for many years, and while I'm still hopeful that it will deliver a great capability for linux, I do think it's going to be many years before hyperscalers and distros are willing to engage with it and that's got a lot to do with kent's "style".
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Originally posted by Jessica View PostIt is pretty obvious that Kent is neurodivergent / a little autistic. As a neurodivergent person myself, I don't really see a problem with his responses, but I understand not a lot of people appreciate bluntness or directness in that manner.
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Originally posted by varikonniemi View Post
you should check from some primary source the real details, but i'm pretty sure it all happens automatically and transparently. maybe they special cased this?
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Originally posted by PuckPoltergeist View Post
Kent seems to be offended personally by technical criticism.
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Originally posted by fitzie View PostWhat is worse is while he doesn't seem like a bad person, he really spreads a lot of negativity in the world. He needs to change.
I'm not out to get Kent, I'm out to get Kent to stop being a jerk.
The problem is however the project they run - if there is a need to contact with other people, like upstreaming his work to kernel, there will be negative consequences.
I've know a few (4 I think) such people in the past (and have input only from a dozen of others) and they tend to destroy their own project on the long run, or they quit. It all works well as long as they develop it (mostly) alone, it all falls apart when there's any outer pression; this sometimes leads to forks.
Your description makes him a good candidate for just another case. If so, this is really a bad news for bcachefs, but this has nothing to do with "being a jerk". This is simply a mental disorder, you cannot blame him for.
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Originally posted by gotar View Post
(...) but this has nothing to do with "being a jerk". This is simply a mental disorder, you cannot blame him for.
Jerks, on the other hand, like to throw out their supposed neurodivergency as a defense when people complain about their jerk behavior.
I also think calling neurodivergency a "mental disorder" is not only wrong but also harmful. The point of the term is to explain that you don't have to have a mental disorder to fall outside the "neurotypical".
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Originally posted by nadir View PostI also think calling neurodivergency a "mental disorder" is not only wrong but also harmful. The point of the term is to explain that you don't have to have a mental disorder to fall outside the "neurotypical".
Anyway that was not the point - the main claim was that it's a bad sign for a future of such project, despite being superior or ahead of it's time. And that noone can do much about it, it's just the way it is.
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Originally posted by fitzie View PostHere is my vendetta: I've been sponsoring this project for many years (as just a patreon donor), and now he's screwing up, turning his community to a defender of his bad behavior, getting senior linux developers to dislike him, and probably ruining chances for companies to consider engaging with him.
Keep this in mind.
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