Hector Martin, founder of the Asahi project Linux, engaged in porting Linux for Mac computers with Apple Silicon ARM chips, announced that he was stepping down as the leader and ceasing development. Asahi members Linux A governing board consisting of seven developers was formed. The board will make decisions collectively and jointly coordinate the project's work.
Hector cites burnout and loss of interest in further development as the reason for leaving, given the undervaluation of the work being done and problems with promoting the project's developments into the core core. In his message, Hector mentions the overly consumerist attitude of users, who are only capable of demanding and complaining about the lack of desired functionality, despite the fact that the project is being developed by enthusiasts, and donations for development are constantly decreasing over time.
The turning point after which the motivation to continue working disappeared was resistance to promotion to the core Linux developments of "Rust for Linux" and creating a hostile atmosphere for the participants of this project. For Asahi Linux inclusion of Rust language support in the kernel Linux This is important because this language was used to develop three drivers (according to Hector, the success of the drm-asahi driver is due to the choice of Rust). Maintaining a kernel branch with custom changes is resource-intensive, and as the amount of code not yet accepted into the main kernel increases, maintenance becomes increasingly difficult.
Hector believes that Rust should have been pushed into the kernel and that its participants should have been actively supported, but Linus Torvalds has taken the position of a passive observer, not interfering with the abuses of some maintainers, who are slowing down the integration of components to support Rust. It is also noted that faith in the kernel community has been undermined by the hypocrisy of some participants, who supported Hector in person, but expressed dissatisfaction behind his back. In addition, the general decline of the kernel community is mentioned, in which there are no former enthusiasts left, and everything is run by corporate employees.
Last week, Hector stepped down as the ARM/Apple kernel platform maintainer. Linux After Linus Torvalds's remark about his overconfidence in his desire to reform the kernel development process and his use of social media to stir up internal disputes, Hector seems to be overly emotional in his reactions to emerging difficulties and takes what he perceives as injustice to heart, while being unwilling to consider the interests of others, find compromise solutions, delve into the motives of others, and accept that his opinion may not be the only correct one.
Source: opennet.ru
