Linux man-pages project maintenance

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non-ML discussion: https://lwn.net/Articles/989215/

link to this set of man pages: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/...

Other than being part of the broader trend of hobbyist open source maintainer burnout, what exactly does this mean?

the part where he says "I'd welcome an offer to sponsor my work here;" indicates a desire to engage in a transaction which exchanges currency units for continued contribution to his existing endeavor.

It looks like Alex maintains this project:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

If I understand correctly, this project is the upstream source of man pages that document system calls, special files, libraries functions, and other interfaces in the kernel.

Perhaps the impact will be these pages will no longer be updated as frequently, unless someone takes over?

Instead of being a prick like the other responder I'm going to give you a half informed understanding. Basically nothing. Lots of projects that are used on a daily basis in production have no maintainers. There is a web UI showing the number of Debian packages with no active maintainer.

Found it. Packages in need of a new maintainer: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/work_needing

Wondering what’s the oldest orphan package on the list.

It is not the Debian package maintainer stepping down here, but the project maintainer.

This is the project that maintains the user-facing documentation for Linux itself.

Anyone who does system administration on Linux, who uses the command line, or who programs in C is relying on this documentation.

Also, it is not the Debian package maintainer stepping down, but the project maintainer.

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