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Title: The Plan For Linux After Torvalds Has a Kernel of Truth: There Isn't
One

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/154...

The Linux kernel project lacks a formal succession plan for when Linus
Torvalds steps down, Register columnist Rupert Goodwins writes. Torvalds has
said "there's no need for formality" and that succession will occur naturally
through community trust. "The next benevolent overlord will appear
naturally," Torvalds believes. Goodwins calls this approach dangerous, noting
that "succession is always a time of uncertainty for those who like the way
things are, and opportunity for those who do not." The kernel project faces
existing tensions including overstretched maintainers doing "two jobs, the
one they're paid for, and the Linux kernel work," commercial pressures from
companies like Red Hat, and increasing maintenance burdens from automated bug
reports. "Hope, as they say, is not a strategy," Goodwins writes.

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