Christoph Hellwig steps down from maintaining DMA
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I think it's safe to blame that first one on Linus' absence.
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Linus already has a backup. Its Greg Kroah-Hartman.
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Hellwig was a bit crusty about being overruled by Torvalds, it seems.
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Good. This makes room for innovation.
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Fully agree with this
Any dictator at some point can cause irreparable harm, this is something that should never be able to happen.
This is coming from a huge fan of Linus, he really is a hero to me
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Completely off topic, but I first read that as 'DNA', did a double take.
At this point, an announcement that whoever is in charge of all DNA continuing to work just stepped down or got fired... wouldn't really seem that out of character for this timeline.
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I hate that it came to this, after so many Rust devs left, but all I can say is "Good."
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Just proves to me that this should've gone to remediation so much earlier. Losing three important contributors to the Kernel, because people were scared of involving the Code of Conduct Committee from the start, is a shit sandwich, regardless of whoever you want to blame for this.
I'm not gonna lose sleep over his departure but the Linux foundation could do a lot to improve the professionalism of the project instead of dumping money on chasing AI.
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If Linus is the only person keeping Linux from descending into corporate enshittification then the project is critically vulnerable already.
What if Linus steps back for personal reasons? What if he falls ill? What if a family member falls ill? What if he's ousted within the foundation? Linux cannot afford to have Linus being a single point of failure.
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Sort of. The person that made the initial commit is not the one that quit (Rust side).
