I just wrote this comment to your Medium article: I agree so 110% with you (Andrew)! And I want to take the opportunity to thank you for the immense service you have done for the worldwide IT community, and still are doing without pay despite your retirement! Your work has contributed immensely to the development of the current world-wide state of computing, and if someone writes a definitive history you deserve your own subchapter!
For the flamers: step up and offer to review PRs, write tests, contribute your own PRs to fix the code, etc.. Or, just please shut up. Simple as that. The only result you might achieve is that Andrew stops maintaining rsync, and my God, there will be a lot of angry people out there for your "contribution" to the internet. Sure, LLMs make mistakes, but so do humans. Prove to us that the final code quality gets worse when using LLMs (by someone with 40 years of experience, using Andrew's approach) or, again, shut up. The fact that AIs are currently finding droves of issues that have slipped by fallible humans proves a point about their proficiency. --- Robin, I am not sure I understand what you're trying to say with "In terms of the resulting code quality, that's not functionally different from hiring an intern". Well, yes, but this intern has read pretty much every piece of code out there, every CVE and every fix, comment, and discussion about them :). Sincerely, Stein Haugan > On 3 Jun 2026, at 07:14, Robin Powell via rsync <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I think people who are going to yell at you when you're manually > reviewing all the code and stand by it as though it were yours are being > ridiculous. In terms of the resulting code quality, that's not functionally > different from hiring an intern. Sorry you're going through that. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM Andrew Tridgell via rsync > <[email protected]> wrote: > there has been quite a lot of outrage lately about rsync development. > I've (perhaps foolishly) tried to address some of it here > https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
