Linus still did neither remove bcachefs from #Linux #kernel nor pulled the updates for 6.17 Kent submitted.
The latter meanwhile wrote a few mails to #LKML which in diplomatic phrases might be called "not really helpful", like this one https://lore.kernel.org/all/3ik3h6hfm4v2y3rtpjshk5y4wlm5n366overw2lp72qk5izizw@k6vxp22uwnwa/
It resulted in a few good replies from respected developers that are worth a read if you are followed the topic, among them from Josef Bacik (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250809192156.GA1411279@fedora/ ), Matthew Wilcox (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJfTPliez_WkwOF3@casper.infradead.org/ ), Sasha Levin (https://lore.kernel.org/all/aJgaiFS3aAEEd78W@lappy/ ) and Theodore Ts'o (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810022436.GA966107@mit.edu/ & https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250810055955.GA984814@mit.edu/).
