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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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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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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Isn't the whole point of FOSS software that anyone can fork it?

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    That's good, at least everything won't collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it's not like no one is...

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Mine won't certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I'm sure someone will do it.

    Oh look, someone already has...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    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.

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