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I think the most telling part of that thread is the number of downvotes this comment received.

This (and similar) discussions are certainly likely to put off anyone considering developing open-source software

I have great respect for the work done in the OSS community. Not sure, but the atmosphere wasn't always so hostile, was it?

this one is crazy

if github doesn't have options to block any interactions from people who have never pushed anything it probably should given stuff like this

i’d be surprised if those all came from people who really really care about the provenance of code in rsync for some reason

I suspect more do than you might think, given the number of incredibly painful regressions introduced in recent versions. LLM hate or not, rsync's latest versions have severe issues.

Its all coming from mastodon mobs

Also seems like the main problem is not the use of AI, but admitting it? «Now that I know AI is involved with updates it has to go through a bunch of scrutiny because it’s considered an “AI tool” by policy.»

the main problem is that they pushed a bunch of regressions in software that's historically been, like, asleep with the occasional sec patch here and there. people use rsync for backups, and have for.. decades. fork it and move on, but being surprised by backlash to breaking things is disingenuous

He pushed a rewrite of the *test suite*. This not the root cause of the regression. rsync had multiple regressions, including severe CVEs, fairly regularly well before Claude Code was a thing. I don’t get where did you hallucinate it being the bastion of stability from.