And what I'm saying is I refuse to believe the Linux kernel approval procedures are that inefficient. Therefore, your belief "bottleneck was most likely not mechanical code changes" is most likely incorrect.
It would be interesting to get the actual answer to this question.
EDIT: Substantially changing your argument after posting isn't nice. But to answer your charge - no - I never made that claim.
The lag there is not due to the review time. How many maintainers were involved? 300? Because I'm still finding it hard to understand how the work of 300 people handling 300 commits cannot be parallelized into months (per your own stat.)
Well - except in this conversation it's incredibly relevant. It took six years to do this work when the work is likely mostly mechanical and could have been done much more quickly and safely with an automated system.
I thought automation would be interesting to HN - given the context and the fact it was not used.
Ooooohhh! Yes, now I understand why I was getting those downvotes.
Thank for you explaining what you meant by "you’re conflating nationality with hosting model." It makes so much more sense now. You meant "But with the options on Bedrock, DeepSeek fighting for a position somewhere in the middle of the cost/quality spectrum."
Yes, that is the answer, and you are not full of sh!t.