It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.
It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.
You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?
Mine won’t certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I’m sure someone will do it.
Oh look, someone already has…
What do you mean someone already has? As of this comment it has 268 forks on GitHub.
Creating a fork takes one click, and doesn’t mean anyone will adopt it. Maintaining a codebase is not as simple as “magic of FOSS”, someone has to dedicate their time to it.
Okay, that’s a lot of someones. That doesn’t contradict “someone has forked it.” You’re being unnecessarily assy.
As per other comments, sudo-rs exists and is being maintained. And that’s the magic of FOSS.
Although it’s apparently not a fork. But it’s still a workable substitute, and that’s what matters. My entire point was that the entire Linux ecosystem isn’t going to be fucked just because one guy dies or decides to stop maintaining a widely used codebase.