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Last I'd heard (I believe) the creator of Alpine Linux was looking for work and the future of the project was a bit uncertain. I'm happy to hear that he'll be a

Last I'd heard (I believe) the creator of Alpine Linux was looking for work and the future of the project was a bit uncertain. I'm happy to hear that he'll be able to continue working with Alpine Linux and that we'll still be able to make great Docker images with it.

fidget 11y ago
Wait, the future of Alpine is dependant on 1 person? I'll stick with Ubuntu I think
- marshallford 11y ago
  I agree, if that is the case those using Alpine in production should be wary.
  - Gigablah 11y ago
    Here's a list of people on their issue tracker: http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/projects/alpine http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/projects/alpine Can't be too sure though, maybe they're all aliases of one person.
    - uggedal 11y ago
      Those are indeed real people.
- JasonSage 11y ago
  Maybe "future of the project is a bit uncertain" was a bit too strong. Here's all I originally saw: https://twitter.com/richfelker/status/662535718267392000 https://twitter.com/richfelker/status/662535718267392000 Either way, it seems it's now getting some backing by Docker. I can only imagine that the number of contributors and packages for it will grow and mature.