Comment by steveklabnik
10 months ago
> he is still beholden to all those downstream developers that rely on the Rust DMA wrapper's functionality, because if he breaks their code, he knows it'll cause a shitstorm.
It is the explicit policy of the project, and was repeated in the thread, that the Rust folks are solely responsible for fixing any breakage. There will be no shitstorm.
I see you responded to both of my comments in this thread, but I'll save us both the trouble by doing a single reply.
I understood/understand the representations, and I am sure they are made in good faith.
At the same time, I also understand the reality of having the things you do seriously impact the work of others and the types of issues that can cause.
I did state that I was leaning on the side of him being unreasonable, but also that I understood the concern. Nothing more, nothing less.
I think Linus should change this though, so that the maintainers that don't want to learn Rust have to step down, and there are no more conflicts.