Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix

Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Obligatory XKCD: xkcd.com/2347/

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  • needanke@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/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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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oddly xkcd’s image has no watermark.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Post in addition to the link.

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• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s lots of developers contributing to the wifi drivers, there’s just no “lead maintainer” now

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That explains many things

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