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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days agoI don't think this is about specific people. It's a systemic problem and about drama, burn-out and other issues. I mean if the break due to some larger issues, the issues don't necessarily vanish along with the person... I mean it's not 100% tgat way, either. Sometimes people-problems go away with the involved people. But I don't think this is about idolization.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Very true, and that’s kinda the crux of my point. We should prepare for the inevitable loss of any person and not take them for granted. Whether through burnout, death, or whatever, most people won’t stick with the same project their whole life.
And so, somebody(s) should join those people such that they aren’t irreplaceable.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days ago
Hmmh. I mean sadly we don't have an abundance of free software developers, let alone kernel developers. So in reality we just can't take them from anywhere. More often than not, it's hard enough to find one person. So I don't see how we'd get a second one on standby. But I agree. hypothetically, it'd be nice to have more than enough people working on it, and some leeway.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Perhaps it’s incumbent upon those visionaries to take time to train their replacement, rather than focus upon code.
In practice, that might be easier said than done, however.