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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: Enjoy the Summer!
Date: Fri,  3 Jul 2026 17:34:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260703-vfs-summer-jam-22b2edbbbc44@brauner> (raw)

Hey!

Summer is here and many core developers and maintainers will be taking
vacations during July and August. I hope everyone gets some
well-deserved rest and recharge and can step away from the fray a little
bit.

The VFS tree will remain open but expect delays in patch processing.
Please don't spam our few overloaded maintainers and reviewers
unnecessarily.

As with other subsystems we see a lot of AI generated patches and bug
reports (publicly and off-list) where the submitter functions like the
Mouth of Sauron. This is not acceptable and such patches will either be
ignored or heavily deprioritized.

In general, over-the-wall, vibe-coded, complex RFC submissions can never
be expected to get lenghty, in-depth reviews especially if the submitter
shows clear signs of not having actually spent the time to think things
through or doesn't understand what they are working on. This is just
taking up valuable development and review time.

Throwing mountains of code or an endless firehose of tiny patches over
the wall to get your name into the kernel is not a success story.

On a postivie note, the last months review discipline has improved quite
a bit in my opinion. But I want to emphasize once more that regular
contributors especially with lenghty submissions to the subsystem are
expected to take part in review.

Review doesn't have to only mean "look for memory leaks". We know that
LLMs are suprisingly good at finding various issues. They have no taste
however. So review should focus on maintainability and design with the
longevity of the subsystem in mind - both internal and external apis.

Keep up the good work and enjoy the summer!
Christian

             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-03 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-03 15:34 Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-07-03 16:01 ` Enjoy the Summer! Darrick J. Wong

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