Linus Torvalds jokingly ponders his successor as Linux boss

8 months ago by monica_b1998 to c/linux

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: Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings

exaybachae 11 points 8 months ago

Let the community vote. Get them onboarded and functioning now. If they don't work out, try another.

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Eat_Your_Paisley 12 points 8 months ago

I think the voting thing is a terrible idea

Greg KH will probably take over

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big_dog_lemmy 9 points 8 months ago

Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.

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Eat_Your_Paisley 9 points 8 months ago

We need nepotism in the Kernel, whomever takes over needs to be a long time developer with skills.

Elections are great for steering committees and such it not for a huge highly technical piece of software that powers the world

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pimento64 1 point 8 months ago

I agree. The democratization is already there, it's called forking.

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SapientLasagna 1 point 8 months ago

This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.

Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).

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