Shit, just linux.
Use this community for anything related to linux for now, if it gets too huge maybe there will be some sort of meme/gaming/shitpost spinoff. Currently though… go nuts
I don't understand why you're posting.
He voluntarily left that community and left a lot of words behind justifying why, and I think your post falls into the trappings of things he hated about having to commune with certain people.
It certainly seems like he wants to be left alone, so just leave him alone.
No. Perhaps you're new to change, but I've experienced project leads come and go with less notice than this.
We need to normalize, again, the fact that these leaders are human, and they have limitations. Celebrity idolization is not a particularly endearing human trait, and people need to learn to respect that when those aforementioned leaders need to break from their past, they are under no obligation to leave anything for posterity.
I don't think this is about specific people. It's a systemic problem and about drama, burn-out and other issues. I mean if they break due to some larger issues, the issues don't necessarily vanish along with the people... I mean it's not 100% that way, either. Sometimes people-problems go away along with the involved people. But I don't think this is about idolization. And I don't even think it's bad per se. I mean if someone maintains a complex thing for a long time, they have a lot of specific knowledge about the intricate details. And whether you idolize them or not... You can't just replace them easily.
Very true, and that's kinda the crux of my point. We should prepare for the inevitable loss of any person and not take them for granted. Whether through burnout, death, or whatever, most people won't stick with the same project their whole life.
And so, somebody(s) should join those people such that they aren't irreplaceable.
Hmmh. I mean sadly we don't have an abundance of free software developers, let alone kernel developers. So in reality we just can't take them from anywhere. More often than not, it's hard enough to find one person. So I don't see how we'd get a second one on standby. But I agree. hypothetically, it'd be nice to have more than enough people working on important software projects, and some leeway.
Perhaps it's incumbent upon those visionaries to take time to train their replacement, rather than focus upon code.
In practice, that might be easier said than done, however.