> Please please don't forget I want you to succeed - that's why I bunged nearly $800 your way in this endeavour - but I'm not the only person who thinks you come across as completely immune to critisicm, even when it's constructive and from your supporters.
You have to understand, I get an absolute _ton_ of "constructive criticism" from people who basically are assuming everything is going off the rails and are expecting massive, and unrealistic changes; for bandwidth reasons if nothing else. I have to stay focused on the code and getting it done.
> Right now that "community effort" is looking a bit unlikely, eh ?
Actually, the big surprise from the DKMS switch is just how much the community came together to make it happen.
This project has looked like a one man show for a long time, and the core of it probably always will be for the simple reason that there are precious few people with the skillset required to do core filesystem engineering; that requires a massive amount of dedication and investment of time to get good at, there's a hell of a learning curve.
But there's still a lot of people with the willingness and ability to help out in other areas. People have been since even before the DKMS switch, to be honest, it's just that a lot of it is boring invisible but extremely necessary QA work - and that stuff is work, and people have helped out a lot there.
You have to be involved in the community, in the IRC channel to see this stuff going on. It's really not just me.
And now with the DKMS switch, a lot more people jumped in and started helping, and that's how we were able to get every major distro supported before the 6.17 release. That happened _fast_, and only a small fraction of the work was mine, mostly I was just coordinating.
Honestly, looking back, I don't think I could have planned this better - the timing was perfect. We're nearly done with stabilization, so it was the right time to start focusing more on distro integration and building up those working relationships, and the DKMS migration was just the kick in the pants to make that happen. Now we're pretty well positioned to get bcachefs into distro installers perhaps six months out.
The community is real, and it's growing.
(I would still _fucking love_ to have more actual filesystem engineers though, heh).
You have to understand, I get an absolute _ton_ of "constructive criticism" from people who basically are assuming everything is going off the rails and are expecting massive, and unrealistic changes; for bandwidth reasons if nothing else. I have to stay focused on the code and getting it done.
> Right now that "community effort" is looking a bit unlikely, eh ?
Actually, the big surprise from the DKMS switch is just how much the community came together to make it happen.
This project has looked like a one man show for a long time, and the core of it probably always will be for the simple reason that there are precious few people with the skillset required to do core filesystem engineering; that requires a massive amount of dedication and investment of time to get good at, there's a hell of a learning curve.
But there's still a lot of people with the willingness and ability to help out in other areas. People have been since even before the DKMS switch, to be honest, it's just that a lot of it is boring invisible but extremely necessary QA work - and that stuff is work, and people have helped out a lot there.
You have to be involved in the community, in the IRC channel to see this stuff going on. It's really not just me.
And now with the DKMS switch, a lot more people jumped in and started helping, and that's how we were able to get every major distro supported before the 6.17 release. That happened _fast_, and only a small fraction of the work was mine, mostly I was just coordinating.
Honestly, looking back, I don't think I could have planned this better - the timing was perfect. We're nearly done with stabilization, so it was the right time to start focusing more on distro integration and building up those working relationships, and the DKMS migration was just the kick in the pants to make that happen. Now we're pretty well positioned to get bcachefs into distro installers perhaps six months out.
The community is real, and it's growing.
(I would still _fucking love_ to have more actual filesystem engineers though, heh).