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Last I'd heard (I believe) the creator of Alpine Linux was looking for work and the future of the project was a bit uncertain. I'm happy to hear that he'll be able to continue working with Alpine Linux and that we'll still be able to make great Docker images with it.

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Wait, the future of Alpine is dependant on 1 person? I'll stick with Ubuntu I think

I agree, if that is the case those using Alpine in production should be wary.

Here's a list of people on their issue tracker:

http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/projects/alpine

Can't be too sure though, maybe they're all aliases of one person.

Those are indeed real people.

Maybe "future of the project is a bit uncertain" was a bit too strong. Here's all I originally saw:

https://twitter.com/richfelker/status/662535718267392000

Either way, it seems it's now getting some backing by Docker. I can only imagine that the number of contributors and packages for it will grow and mature.

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