I should not have implied that every bug report would be a bad interaction - and to be fair where I've seen it degenerate in the mailing list, it's often the other person wasn't exactly civil to start with (which unfortunately includes Linus Torvalds). It's just that Kent seems to feel the need to fight back.
A file system is an emotional investment of a decade+ so I can understand Kent's desire to defend it the way he does.
That said the kernel is the bigger picture, if he wants it to be successful and remain in mainline he needs to adapt to how Linus expects maintainers to operate. That probably means delaying getting fixes to mainline users until he can show they have been adequately tested. Until that trust is built bcachefs is always a few bad cycles away from being dropped from mainline.
Linus can be a bit of a dick sometimes (and hey, so can I), but he's not prone to being rash or a petty tyrant. He just rides people a bit hard.
Following process to the letter isn't what we should be doing right now; this isn't the time for slowing down to cross every t and dot every i, this is the time for getting fixes pushed out quickly so we can move on to the next thing.
But things have also been stabilizing dramatically, it's already looking like I'll have a lot less out of merge window stuff to send this cycle (there wasn't much that I would've sent last cycle, either).
