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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 days ago by randomname@scribe.disroot.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't the whole point of FOSS software that anyone can fork it?

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The article points out that sudo has already been forked by Ubuntu maintainer canonical into sudo-rs which reimplements sudo in rust with better memory protections. It also states that the maintainer of sudo expects sudo-rs to be the future of sudo.

[–] aloso@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago

sudo-rs is a complete re-implementation, not a fork. Also, sudo-rs was not created by Ubuntu. It was created by Tweede Golf and Ferrous System with funding from Prossimo. Since 2024 it is being maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Ubuntu merely packages it.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

sudo-rs is not a fork.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's good, at least everything won't collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it's not like no one is...

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can fork it. Are you gonna maintain your fork? Is your fork going to be adopted by the majority of distributions?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mine won't certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I'm sure someone will do it.

Oh look, someone already has...

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean someone already has? As of this comment it has 268 forks on GitHub.

Creating a fork takes one click, and doesn't mean anyone will adopt it. Maintaining a codebase is not as simple as "magic of FOSS", someone has to dedicate their time to it.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 18 hours ago

Okay, that's a lot of someones. That doesn't contradict "someone has forked it." You're being unnecessarily assy.

As per other comments, sudo-rs exists and is being maintained. And that's the magic of FOSS.

Although it's apparently not a fork. But it's still a workable substitute, and that's what matters. My entire point was that the entire Linux ecosystem isn't going to be fucked just because one guy dies or decides to stop maintaining a widely used codebase.