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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Dude chill it'll be fine. Why are you on the ledge after this post? Someone is obviously going to step up and take their place.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

That's not obvious at all..

Maybe it is to people who are really deep into the Linux world but generally if there's only a single person in the world doing something, it's never obvious that someone else will start to do that if the first person stops.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Its pretty obvious that the folks at Linux aren't going to just say fuck the WiFi stack because the current sole maintainer is stepping down.

Also, it being a sole maintainer doesn't mean no one else would could do it.. Its probably a job that this person was able to handle solo and now that the position has become vacant, another will step in.

If this was some small niche I can understand the concern about the potential of having it go unfilled but WiFi / wireless is crucial.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Likely sole maintainer, not sole contributor

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