rsync - Jun 2026 - rsync and outrage

there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development.
I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

FWIW, I think people who are going to yell at you when you're manually
reviewing all the code and stand by it as though it were yours are being
ridiculous.  In terms of the resulting code quality, that's not
functionally different from hiring an intern.  Sorry you're going through
that.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 8:14?PM Andrew Tridgell via rsync <
rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development.
> I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here
> https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
>
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Speaking as someone who was happy to see that for rsync, unlike many other
open-source projects, he did not have to reimplement a trivial, obviously (to me
anyway) correct change in some silly-and-different way, or lie about having used
AI for the underlying analysis, in order to recently submit a patch: please,
keep on as you are doing and ignore the jerks.

If I choose to use a bandsaw instead of a jigsaw (or perhaps more rightly for
the analogy, a fully manual coping saw) and I cut off my thumb, this was stupid,
and I exercised inadequate care.  If I ask, or allow, a student to use a
bandsaw, without adequate training and advice, and they injure themselves, I
think it is fair to say I bear some of the responsibility for that.  However,
neither of these is an argument for refusing to use or even look at furniture I
suspect or know may have been made using dangerous tools.

Thor

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Subject: rsync and outrage

there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development.
I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

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