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Linus Torvalds jokingly ponders his successor as Linux boss (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/linux@sopuli.xyz

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[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Let the community vote. Get them onboarded and functioning now. If they don't work out, try another.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the voting thing is a terrible idea

Greg KH will probably take over

[–] big_dog_lemmy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

We need nepotism in the Kernel, whomever takes over needs to be a long time developer with skills.

Elections are great for steering committees and such it not for a huge highly technical piece of software that powers the world

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree. The democratization is already there, it's called forking.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.

Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).