If a professional and mature developer who understands a release cycle is willing to step up as a maintainer, yes.
Meanwhile, I no longer have to stress about whether I'll be about to get bugfixes out, actual users seem happy and my life is far better :)
No. It's very simple. 1) do QA and follow the release cycle, 2) act like a person when interacting with other developers.
If you fail to do both, you should not be surprised that people go through great lengths to not have to deal with you and all your nonsense.
The fact that after all this time you still feel compelled to gaslight everyone with this victim mentality shows that you still have a long way to go to, and a lot of soul searching to do.
I was spending a lot of my time just doing QA for the rest of the kernel.
You seem to just be painfully misinformed - or you're outright trolling.
Edit: I think this makes for some good reading: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/8/9/427
I'm afraid not all opinions are created equal, this isn't design by committee :)
I can’t remember anyone earning the level of hostile treatment he did and getting kicked out.
I don’t see how it would ever happen.
You don't seem to be following it very closely, as apparently you failed to come across the history of abuse and hostile behavior of bcachefs's maintainer.