Maybe it is to people who are really deep into the Linux world but generally if there's only a single person in the world doing something, it's never obvious that someone else will start to do that if the first person stops.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Its pretty obvious that the folks at Linux aren't going to just say fuck the WiFi stack because the current sole maintainer is stepping down.

Also, it being a sole maintainer doesn't mean no one else would could do it.. Its probably a job that this person was able to handle solo and now that the position has become vacant, another will step in.

If this was some small niche I can understand the concern about the potential of having it go unfilled but WiFi / wireless is crucial.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

Likely sole maintainer, not sole contributor

[–] Tgo_up@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't know enough to be able to say how easy it is to take over, but having been done by a single person could mean that no one else has the skills or the interest to do it, or maybe to do it as well as the original person.

I can definitely see why it could make a Linux user worried.