Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
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updated: Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals

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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  • mech@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    This is the state of free software, especially when it matures.

    The state of free software also includes the fact that even if the sudo maintainer doesn’t find support, no one steps up and sudo becomes unmaintained, sudo-rs, doas, opendoas, run0 and please already exist as alternatives.