[tomek@vz]

The Linux kernel has become such an integral, core part of pretty much all aspects of the technology world, and corporate contributions to the kernel make up such a huge chunk of the kernel’s ongoing development, it’s easy to forget that some parts of the kernel are still maintained by some lone person in Jacksonville, Nebraska, or whatever. Sadly, we were reminded of this today when the sole maintainer of a few DRM (no, not the bad kind) announced he can no longer maintain the gud, mi0283qt, panel-mipi-dbi, and repaper drivers.

Remove myself as maintainer for gud, mi0283qt, panel-mipi-dbi and repaper. My fatigue illness has finally closed the door on doing development of even moderate complexity so it’s sad to let this go.

↫ Noralf Trřnnes
There must be quite a few obscure parts of the Linux kernel that are of no interest to the corporate world, and thus remain maintained by individuals in their free time, out of some personal need or perhaps a sense of duty. If one such person gives up their role as maintainer, for whatever reason, you better hope it’s not something your workflow relies, because if no new maintainer is found, you will eventually run into trouble.

Ovo je samo DRM USB driver za vanjski display (ugrubo). Ali - pokazuje da ona pretpostavka da je prednost Linuxa baš da mnogi developeri rade na kodu na projektima i da je zato kod sigurniji i kvalitetniji. Za većinu OSS softwera možda to i je tako no ako ne gledamo korporativno podržani svijet bojim se da je malo više ovakvih malih projekata na kojem radi jedan dev i ako ga netko ne preuzme - stvar propada. To je loše.