Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:02 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
To: Renaud Allard <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Renaud Allard <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only
> allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more
> requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.

Yes.


#openbsd
@pkw isn't this what #openbsd is all about? Doing things slowly, correctly and with love and hard work?

@ojs @pkw

alas, sometimes it's about doing things slowly, eventually correctly, and with insults and hard work 😑

(as felt from the perspective of one who recently reported a bug¹, got insulted with a "why tf would you do something stupid like that"-like response, only to have someone else follow up a few days later having confirmed the bug and providing a patch²)


¹ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177292971521972&w=2

² https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177313399629279&w=2

'vnd0 device teardown: mount_vnd (failing) vs vnconfig' - MARC