CodeWeavers, which sponsors the development of Wine, about the death of his employee - JΓ³zef Kucia, the author of the project (implementation of Direct3D 12 on top of the Vulkan API) and one of the key developers of Wine, who also took part in the development of the Mesa and Debian projects. Josef made over 2500 changes to Wine and implemented most of the Direct3D related code.
Josef was fond of speleology, and when building a map of one of the little-studied cave systems in the Tatras (the Big Snow Cave in Poland), he and another member of the expedition were cut off from the rest of the group by an unexpectedly surging stream of water. Despite the attempted rescue operation, Josef and his comrade died. Joseph was 28 years old.
Source: opennet.ru