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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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https://git.sudo.ws/sudo

According to the above Robert Manner and AZero13 also have one contribution each. There's also the https://opencollective.com/sudo-project which has a board.

If Todd wants to pass off the project he has all the resources to do this.