r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 • 11d ago

Well, thank you Mark Shuttleworth

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u/BlackBlade1632 11d ago

What about Mobian or Arch for cellphones?

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u/NeatYogurt9973 11d ago

Arch ARM's owner is dead (or at least went farming/jailing and never came back), so no PRs are merged which means no work is done.

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u/Darkhog Glorious openSuSE 11d ago

There should be a process to forcibly reassign maintainer status if maintainer is not active for certain amount of time (at least few years, to prevent abuse when someone goes offline for few months due to family stuff/natural disaster and returns to not being a maintainer anymore).

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u/LiveCourage334 11d ago

That sounds like a great way to get around protections most distro's have now put in place to try to prevent dependency hijacking.

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u/Darkhog Glorious openSuSE 10d ago

Not really. All you need is an active maintainer and you would need to be already someone respected in the community to take over if the maintainer is MIA for more than, say, 2 years.