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.
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.
In my experience a lot of these old projects really go out of their way to dissuade contributions anyway. Lots of naysaying “it’s always been like that”, ancient infrastructure - e.g. insisting on
git send-emailpatches, etc.Usually the only way it gets resolved is when someone writes a more modern competitor and it starts gaining traction. Suddenly all those improvements that people tried to do and were told were impossible and stupid aren’t such a bad idea after all.
I don’t think that’s the case with Unity but it probably is with things like GCC, sudo, sysvinit, X11, etc.