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Re: Rsync and outrage

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Post by CaptainFever »

It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page.

A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

Re: Rsync and outrage

#3

Post by happymellon »

CaptainFever wrote: post #2

It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page. A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

I'm showing that it was only published an hour ago.

5am here in the UK, midnight Eastern US on a Tuesday night? I can see why it wouldn't have gained much traction yet.

> A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

Stop baiting.

Re: Rsync and outrage

#4

Post by 2muchtime »

happymellon wrote: post #3
CaptainFever wrote: post #2

It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page. A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

I'm showing that it was only published an hour ago. 5am here in the UK, midnight Eastern US on a Tuesday night? I can see why it wouldn't have gained much traction yet. > A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN. Stop baiting.

Probably best to spell that “baiting”

Re: Rsync and outrage

#5

Post by happymellon »

2muchtime wrote: post #4
happymellon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm showing that it was only published an hour ago. 5am here in the UK, midnight Eastern US on a Tuesday night? I can see why it wouldn't have gained much traction yet. > A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN. Stop baiting.

Probably best to spell that “baiting”

Thanks! :D

Re: Rsync and outrage

#6

Post by CaptainFever »

happymellon wrote: post #3
CaptainFever wrote: post #2

It's sad that the outrage posts got hundreds of comments while this article, from the maintainer explaining the CVEs and test suites, only has this singular comment and is already on the second page. A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN.

I'm showing that it was only published an hour ago. 5am here in the UK, midnight Eastern US on a Tuesday night? I can see why it wouldn't have gained much traction yet. > A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. Do better, HN. Stop baiting.

We'll see if you're right, and if HNers can redeem themselves. I'm not holding out much hope, though.

Re: Rsync and outrage

#8

Post by happymellon »

A bit of a mixed one here.

The vibe coding got the project attention and it looks like he's going to get the help he needed.

However the "outrage", if you even call it that, wasn't entirely misplaced when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as:

Can't use rsync with absolute paths:

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922

Links mode is broken:

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915

The scale of the commits, and rewriting the entire testing framework was pretty big for a "bugfix" revision.

Re: Rsync and outrage

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Post by hdgvhicv »

happymellon wrote: post #8

A bit of a mixed one here. The vibe coding got the project attention and it looks like he's going to get the help he needed. However the "outrage", if you even call it that, wasn't entirely misplaced when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as: Can't use rsync with absolute paths: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922 Links mode is broken: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915 The sc…

I wonder whether there would have been less complaint had the number been a major increase, say to v4 beta. That amount of change in a minor version number bump seems unusual, but I don’t know rsync enough, I just use the version bundled in my 2/4 year old LTS distros and assume it works.

This does once again feel like a case of https://xkcd.com/2347/

I do wonder about “The world of software engineering has changed dramatically in the last few months”. Has it really? I’ve been hearing that for a few years now.

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