Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team
Morten Linderud is resigning from the Arch Linux development team after almost a decade of service. He has sent an internal email regarding the responsibilities that people are free to take over, including the maintenance of certain packages. The Arch Linux community will need to find new maintainers for several packages, including mkinitcpio and arch-install-scripts.
- ▪Morten Linderud is resigning as a package maintainer and developer of Arch Linux.
- ▪He has been a part of the team for almost a decade, joining the security team at 33C3.
- ▪Several packages, including mkinitcpio and arch-install-scripts, are currently left without an active maintainer.
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Yo, I'm resigning as a package maintainer and developer of Arch Linux. It's been almost a decade since I met Jelle, Chris, Levente and Remi at 33C3 to be (peacefully) coerced into joining the security team, and almost 9 years since I became a package maintainer. It's time to let go. I've sent an internal email about misc responsebilities people are free to taken over, but for the benefit of the list I'll point out that mkinitcpio and arch-install-scripts is currently left without an active maintainer. Thanks to all the friends I made along the way. # Orphaned packages Below is a list of packages that have me as the sole maintainer. I think the following packages should be adopted by someone. Rest can be cleaned up at some other point. Note that I have not checked dependant packages.
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