Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?
Yes! They don’t believe forking is good enough because his version of rsync is mainline. That’s why he thinks the rsync developer needs to give up his project to someone else.
I mean I understand the reasoning behind the problem with “x is mainline”: distros.
Most software at the utility level rsync sits at, reaches final users (the ones who complain) not by direct download, but by being aggregated by distros. And unfortunately even highly respected distros like Debian have decided to accept AI in rsync even with the resulting data loss.
I was warned beforehand enough that I pinned rsync in 3.4.1 while it still was in my system, and it will remain so for the short term while I wait for this whole thing to settle down amicably.
Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?
Yes! They don’t believe forking is good enough because his version of rsync is mainline. That’s why he thinks the rsync developer needs to give up his project to someone else.
https://feddit.online/comment/8502390
I mean I understand the reasoning behind the problem with “x is mainline”: distros.
Most software at the utility level rsync sits at, reaches final users (the ones who complain) not by direct download, but by being aggregated by distros. And unfortunately even highly respected distros like Debian have decided to accept AI in rsync even with the resulting data loss.
I was warned beforehand enough that I pinned rsync in 3.4.1 while it still was in my system, and it will remain so for the short term while I wait for this whole thing to settle down amicably.