Comment by magicalhippo

The disturbing part isn't the bug in time-sync.target or documentation, the disturbing part is how casually he brushes the issue away.

To me this is a huge red flag for a senior contributer to a core systems component, signalling some fundamental lack of understanding or imagination.

I very much disagree with not fixing time-sync.target, but if he had instead written a well-reasoned explanation for why time-sync.target should not propagate failed states and flagging it as a documentation bug, then that's something I'd respect and would be fine with. Or, even better IMHO, he'd fix time-sync.target and state that users who wants to boot regardless should use Wants instead.