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Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months (linuxiac.com)
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AerynOS maintainer confirms that founder Ikey Doherty hasn’t been in contact for six months but assures the project remains stable and on track.

During my brief exchange yesterday with the AerynOS team about the coverage of their updated 2025.10 ISO release, they mentioned something about the project’s founder, Ikey Doherty, that I wasn’t entirely sure how to take at first — specifically the part that stated, “he stepped back six months ago.”

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 13 points 2 months ago

History repeats itself? Solus?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

This was widely anticipated

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Who disappears like that without saying anything. Obviously something happened to him.

The article says he stepped back, but it doesnt say that he did that, only that he stopped showing up.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

He did exactly this with Solus, he didn't even respond to requests to release maintainership to someone else for months. He's the reason project governance boards were invented.

Brilliant coder, but he flames out and fucks off.