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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

I think that's at least a big part of it. There's so much unnecessary friction in legacy projects that, while understandable to a degree, sucks.

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