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Just a side note: sudo is largely maintained by just one dude https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/grap

Just a side note: sudo is largely maintained by just one dude https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

calvinmorrison 3y ago
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rascul 3y ago
For three decades. I suspect he hasn't seen much money for the work, but hopefully I'm wrong.
- skywal_l 3y ago
  From his personal page: For the past 30+ years I’ve been the maintainer of sudo. I’m currently in search of a sponsor to fund continued sudo maintenance and development. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring sudo, please let me know.[0] [0]: https://www.millert.dev/ https://www.millert.dev/
  - lenerdenator 3y ago
    Sounds like a prime candidate for the Linux, Apache, Mozilla, etc. foundations. Y'know. Before some strangely-named benefactor from within the UTC+03:00 time zone swoops in.
- al_borland 3y ago
  Seems like that might be an issue. From his website… >I’m currently in search of a sponsor to fund continued sudo maintenance and development. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring sudo, please let me know.
maxloh 3y ago
So many critical components in our system are maintained by just a random good guy on the internet. I can't help but think of another XZ crisis that is yet to come. https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/
- BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  I think this may be the more accurate sentiment: I can't help but think of all the other xz crises yet to be discovered
citizen_friend 3y ago
Did you expect more?
m463 3y ago
also worth mentioning: Lennart Poettering "Poettering is known for having controversial technical and architectural positions regarding the Linux ecosystem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering
- vaylian 3y ago
  His positions are mostly controversial because he challenges the way things have been done for a long time. Whenever he presents some new idea/architecture my first reaction is often confusion. Why would he change something that has worked so well for such a long time? But then I take the time to read up on the reasoning behind his ideas and then things start to make sense. Even when something isn't exactly broken, there is still room for better solutions.
  - cduzz 3y ago
    There have been lots of suggestions for how to improve linux / unix for a very long time. The first great war I remember, and I'm sure there were more before I was around, was DJB vs everyone. For the most part, I think his designs, "weird" as they were / are, are still better than almost every crackpot variation of them that's come since.
    - karma_pharmer 3y ago
      Dude you cannot compare DJB to Pottering. DJB is a genius, responsible for all of the non-NSA asymmetric cryptosystems, symmetric cryptosystems, and authenticated encryption algorithms supported by TLS (curve25519, chacha20, Poly1305). He's also the one who got us off of the footgun-by-design, broken-random-number-generator-will-spray-your-privatekey-everywhere nondeterministic nonce signature schemes prior to Ed25519 (the first standardized signature scheme which required deterministic nonces). Oh yeah and the only post-quantum cryptosystem that OpenSSH was comfortable shipping. And pottering gave us pulseaudio. The gift that keeps on giving.
      - 3y ago
aixpert 3y ago
Don't worry I offered him help. I recently helped xz library too

Just a side note: sudo is largely maintained by just one dude https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

calvinmorrison 3y ago

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rascul 3y ago

For three decades. I suspect he hasn't seen much money for the work, but hopefully I'm wrong.

skywal_l 3y ago
From his personal page: For the past 30+ years I’ve been the maintainer of sudo. I’m currently in search of a sponsor to fund continued sudo maintenance and development. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring sudo, please let me know.[0] [0]: https://www.millert.dev/ https://www.millert.dev/
- lenerdenator 3y ago
  Sounds like a prime candidate for the Linux, Apache, Mozilla, etc. foundations. Y'know. Before some strangely-named benefactor from within the UTC+03:00 time zone swoops in.
al_borland 3y ago
Seems like that might be an issue. From his website… >I’m currently in search of a sponsor to fund continued sudo maintenance and development. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring sudo, please let me know.

maxloh 3y ago

So many critical components in our system are maintained by just a random good guy on the internet. I can't help but think of another XZ crisis that is yet to come. https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/

BLKNSLVR 3y ago
I think this may be the more accurate sentiment: I can't help but think of all the other xz crises yet to be discovered

citizen_friend 3y ago

Did you expect more?

m463 3y ago

also worth mentioning: Lennart Poettering "Poettering is known for having controversial technical and architectural positions regarding the Linux ecosystem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering

vaylian 3y ago
His positions are mostly controversial because he challenges the way things have been done for a long time. Whenever he presents some new idea/architecture my first reaction is often confusion. Why would he change something that has worked so well for such a long time? But then I take the time to read up on the reasoning behind his ideas and then things start to make sense. Even when something isn't exactly broken, there is still room for better solutions.
- cduzz 3y ago
  There have been lots of suggestions for how to improve linux / unix for a very long time. The first great war I remember, and I'm sure there were more before I was around, was DJB vs everyone. For the most part, I think his designs, "weird" as they were / are, are still better than almost every crackpot variation of them that's come since.
  - karma_pharmer 3y ago
    Dude you cannot compare DJB to Pottering. DJB is a genius, responsible for all of the non-NSA asymmetric cryptosystems, symmetric cryptosystems, and authenticated encryption algorithms supported by TLS (curve25519, chacha20, Poly1305). He's also the one who got us off of the footgun-by-design, broken-random-number-generator-will-spray-your-privatekey-everywhere nondeterministic nonce signature schemes prior to Ed25519 (the first standardized signature scheme which required deterministic nonces). Oh yeah and the only post-quantum cryptosystem that OpenSSH was comfortable shipping. And pottering gave us pulseaudio. The gift that keeps on giving.
    - 3y ago

aixpert 3y ago

Don't worry I offered him help. I recently helped xz library too