[hatsunearu]

Once you try it, and read his blogs about how all of this shit works, you'll know that he isn't exaggerating.

The amount of control and physics-based editing you're doing is very unique.

This wasn't what darktable was like a few years ago, but this guy has been making incredible strides to implement his vision.

[jillesvangurp]

Very much so. That, and he's French. The French way of critiquing is a bit different from what other cultures do and can be a bit abrasive. Cultural differences are a thing to be aware off when dealing with people from different nationalities.

He means well and is deeply passionate about this stuff. He's worked his ass off in Darktable for many years. One of the few (only?) developers that was trying to do this full time on donations, etc. He's the closest thing Darktable had to a benevolent dictator style leader (like Linus Torvalds). Big loss for the project to not have him around. I hope they can reconcile their differences somehow. Would be best for all.

Basically, what happened is somebody pushed through something that in Aurelian's mind were some severely misguided, low quality changes without much debate or process. It just showed up and he flipped out and did not appreciate being bypassed/ignored like happened.