alt Hacker NewsAre you basing this opinion on the issue or actual evidence? Because this github link, although interesting, is almost completely context free on what the drama is beyond "Claude". The rsync maintainers could be anywhere on the spectrum from the perfect and responsible maintainer to incompetent children and we couldn't really tell.
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> is almost completely context free on what the drama is beyond "Claude"
As soon as it happened their rsync based backup system that was working before started to fail. It says right there.
The problem is the we couldn’t really tell part. Changes made to mature finished projects should be minimal and readable and understandable by humans.
Also rsync is handling copying binary data, it’s a project that’s super sensitive to hardware faults for example, which means it’s not just enough for the tests to pass.
We could tell, if someone did independent work of reviewing a sample of the contributions and recent changes (and published in a blog post for example).
To me it seems people had actual problems with newer versions. Additionally, a significant portion of the code changed within a very short time frame.
Doesn't matter if they did it by hand or with AI.