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Linus Torvalds jokingly ponders his successor as Linux boss (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Let the community vote. Get them onboarded and functioning now. If they don't work out, try another.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I think the voting thing is a terrible idea

    Greg KH will probably take over

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    We need nepotism in the Kernel, whomever takes over needs to be a long time developer with skills.

    Elections are great for steering committees and such it not for a huge highly technical piece of software that powers the world

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.

    Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).

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