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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 208 points 2 years ago (15 children)

They were doing this all by themselves?!

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  • [–] 206 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Well, "maintainer" is usually a single person job. They didn't write all the code or whatever, just were the gatekeeper to what got added and making sure shit works.

    So I mean, it's not great nobody is stepping up, but it's also not like they magiced up the entirety of linux's wifi support single handed, either.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Other people stepped up like within a day.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ah cool, the one time I read the article it's wrong and saying that there hadn't been someone who had stepped up yet.

    Well, I'll go back to making uninformed comments based solely on the headline, because clearly the articles are not adding any value. (/s, etc.)

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  • [–] 116 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Btw, you can embedd the image like that:

    ![Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png)

    It will look like that:

    Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    The article isn't entirely clear. I get the impression that the person in question may have been the sole maintainer for some hardware-agnostic parts of the wireless stack (which I'd expect to only need active development when a new standard gets greenlighted; should be bugfixes the rest of the time), co-maintainer of the drivers for some atheros chipsets, and the general oversight/coordination guy, but there are other developers working on specific drivers.

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