I too would like to take this opportunity to thank Andrew from the
bottom of my heart for all the wonderful work he puts into this, and all
of that out of passion and without compensation. I use rsync very day
for my backups and I'm very glad it exists at all. It's people like him
who make this world a better place, and we have a great deal of need for
that.
As far as the AI is concerned, I think Andrew's approach is the correct
one. At least it's the approach I take with my students when they try to
cheat on exercises and assignments with AI. I call them up and make them
review and explain everything they have written. Those who can, get a
passing grade. Those who can't get a failing grade. So far nobody has
gotten a passing grade.
Hats off to Andrew and the entire community of people who provide us
open source and free software.
Regards, Andreas
On 03/06/2026 11:05, Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan via rsync wrote:
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.
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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
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