A Single Maintainer, Countless Packages, and Sudden Silence

Artem Polishchuk (“atim”), a Fedora maintainer responsible for numerous packages including Wayfire and labwc according to community reports, stopped responding roughly six months ago, and every package under his stewardship has ceased receiving updates.

-It's simply the reality of volunteer labor

Other distros relying on the work will feel the effect.

The only distributions somewhat insulated from maintainer disappearance are those backed by paid corporate maintenance: RHEL (not Fedora), Ubuntu, and SUSE.

FOSS Devs Quit and Sellout on Unappreciative Userbase

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago*

Also nvim-treesitter. Some entitled fuck told the based maintainer that he should support older versions of neovim because that fuck doesn't use version 9+. Guess what, the maintainer archived the repo, as he should after having to deal with all these people.

Based as hell. And fuck FOSStards

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