That's not kind, several people worked on ReiserFS even after Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. It's a sad story for them, they liked their product and the conduct of their leader betrayed them.
At some point, you have to wonder why the developers of a filesystem insist on associating it with a convicted murderer. Maybe stubbornness, edginess, a lack of awareness... or maybe they're friends of Hans Reiser.
In an Algolia search I can't find any conversation about a name change on HN:
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