karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@[email protected])
chaos.social
I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer. I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa. Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement. I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway. Full upstream and public statement here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html

Following the R4L debacle “you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line”, another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

  • @proton_lynx
    12•4 days ago

    Yeah, I agree with you that, realistically speaking, Rust people would probably complain when C code brakes their code, but I still think that this was not what Hellwig was talking about.

    In my opinion, he was just being unreasonable when he told people that he would be doing everything he can to prevent anything else that’s not C code from being merged into the kernel.

    I mean, I understand his concerns of not wanting to deal with Rust code, but what he said is not contributing AT ALL to the discussion.

    btw, I’m not the one downvoting your comments. I disagree with you but I think you are making some valid points.

    • @ikiddEnglish
      1•4 days ago

      Fair enough, I guess I would agree with you on the value it had to that discussion. I’ve just dealt with partial codebase transitions and it’s a horror to fix anything.

      And I couldn’t give a shit about downvotes, or I’d just dogpile along with the groupthink in every thread like the rest of the Lemmings. I appreciate the discussion.