I was thinking of the public clash in 2025 between Christoph Hellwig which lead to the resignation of Hector Martin, lead of the Asahi Linux project.
replyIt looks like later, in December 2025, Rust was officially moved from experimental to official: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
I think what Linus pushed back on was specifically "social media brigading" as a solution to internal issues: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
replyIn this case it arguably helped. I do wonder how much longer that stalemate would have gone on without the blow up.
replyI don’t think it’s a good policy in general. Mostly I think it would just end up in alienation and people not wanting to work with you. And Martin did leave. But he had a point and it seemed to get resolved.