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“It seems like there will be more advisers and more candidates soon” You sure? http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/ http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/ hasn’t
by cpach 3y ago
“It seems like there will be more advisers and more candidates soon”
You sure? http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/ http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/ hasn’t been updated in nearly four years.
- burkaman 3y agoOh no I didn't see the updated date, I just figured this was posted here because it was new. I guess it is already dead.
- dtaht 3y agoHis idea was published in the last linux journal, and generated in part, in sympathy for my state of health at the time. Since then there has been a lot of decent research on the "load" and emerging government support for critical projects, as log4j woke up quite a few folk as to the problems that we are creating for ourselves with bad maintenence of open source code. The FCC has a NPRM pending on a cybersecurity label, for example, based on NISTś recommendations from this presidential directive. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/18/biden-harris-administration-announces-cybersecurity-labeling-program-for-smart-devices-to-protect-american-consumers/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... It is ok that the loadsharers idea, as conceived here, has died, as it lives on in other places, and the things that esr and I cared about then, are getting taken care of.