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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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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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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This has been depressing for a while now. I’m a big Unity fan and I’m concerned about the future.

"Maybe someone could teach us how things are done so that we can take it over in time," Adamietz added.

Wasn’t any of this documented anywhere? And who are these other team members they interviewed? How is it they don’t know how to write code? Are they just manual testers or something?

I’d try to help myself if there was some decent documentation on where to begin. But if it’s all in this kids head, we might be kinda fucked.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

To me I tried to add people to my unity project and they were unable to actually boot it up and that angered me enough to go godot