One of RedHat's packagers drops a lot of important packages' maintainership due to management chain decisions. These include:

  • gnome-bluetooth (including Settings panel and gnome-shell integration)
  • totem, totem-pl-parser, gom
  • libgnome-volume-control
  • libgudev
  • geocode-glib
  • gvfs AFC backend
  • power-profiles-daemon
  • switcheroo-control
  • iio-sensor-proxy
  • low-memory-monitor

...and "Kernel work, reviews and maintenance, including recent work on SteelSeries headset and Logitech devices kernel drivers, USB revoke for Flatpak Portal support, or core USB".

  • snaggen@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    He is one of the key people to get all of the low level components "just work", and a big part of why I use Fedora as my go to desktop distribution. This kind of work is a key part of providing a smooth desktop experience, sad to see RedHat stopping to support it.

  • CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee
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    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Ah, so IBM are in control of Red Hat.

    I think it seems the timescale to pretend you aren't going to change anything is 2-5 years.

    Don't expect anything from these big corps, just fork (if you really must), and move on.