[tptacek]

Sure, but it's easy to clinically examine any communication and refine it with the benefit of both hindsight and low cortisol levels. My read of this situation is that everyone involved was stuck in a shitty situation; it got very briefly heated, and ended up where it should have: with another dev cycle to iterate on FreeBSD WireGuard.

[kbenson]

I agree on both counts, but I think (constructive) criticism is warranted in a mistake. To absolve Jason of all responsibility would be to possibly not provide that useful feedback of why not to do this the same way next time.

Hopefully I accurately expressed that as what I was trying to convey. I don't think Jason is close to even half the problem in this case, just the small spark that allowed it to continue and explode (continue because is started with a substandard implementation to begin with). At the same time, he's also the one easier to critique constructively because the other party is hard to relate to (I'm not one to jump to conspiracy theories about implicit efforts to defame).