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.
Isn’t the whole point of FOSS software that anyone can fork it?
The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.
sudo-rs is not a fork.
That’s good, at least everything won’t collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it’s not like no one is…
You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?
Mine won’t certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I’m sure someone will do it.
Oh look, someone already has…