I just want to remark in this thread two things: firstly, that I do largely agree with the assessments made by @KapiX and @PulkoMandy in here; and secondly, while indeed I sparred quite a lot with @X512, we are not in any way “mortal enemies,” and in fact have had some very productive conversations on IRC and on Gerrit the past few weeks; and he has provided some good early testing results on the new NTFS driver that I am currently working on in Gerrit.
That is all to say that while X512’s conduct on the forums has not been great, and I think he has some “learning to do,” he still very much has a place here, and we would be happy to help him learn how we do things in a social sense (and coding styles, for instance, are a genuine part of that, and not something “purely cosmetic”.)