Rsync and Outrage

49 points by st3fan 2 hours ago | 8 comments

happymellon 5 minutes ago |

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.

hdgvhicv 55 seconds ago | |

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.

CaptainFever 2 hours ago |

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.

happymellon 1 hour ago | |

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.

CaptainFever 59 minutes ago | | |

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

2muchtime 1 hour ago | | |

Probably best to spell that “baiting”

ChrisArchitect 51 minutes ago |

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705