On 03/11/2013 03:07 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> It didn't affect distributions for quite a few months afterwards. Having said
> that, your point is valid. We should have been more proactive on this front.
I'm inclined to agree. On the one hand, I think there are some people who just
don't understand just *how* disruptive this change was, how contrary to both
the "don't break userspace" rule and basic software-engineering discipline. On
the other hand, eight months is an awfully long time for a patch to remain in
review. ("A year" is exaggerating a little, because of distro packaging etc.)
It's quite reasonable to consider all of the above to be insufficient excuse
for such a long delay. Ditto for other demands on our time, XFS as an
alternative (which gave us some other problems at exactly the same time BTW),
and so on. It should have been fixed by now.
I wish I had something better to say than "sorry" and "we'll try to do better"
but I'm afraid I really don't. Let's try to get this into 3.4beta1 and put it
behind us.
