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Re:Void Linux project leader has disappeared by barkingcat on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:34AM (#16967323)
The only responsible and correct thing to do is to fork it! That's what open source licenses allows as a built in mechanism for these kinds of situations.
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Re:Void Linux project leader has disappeared by peterwwillis on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:44AM (#16967389)
Honestly, this is a regular part of open source projects. Void says they "really like the brand" so they don't want to fork, but it's better to not have these kind of attachments and be free to just start over.

If there's an easy way for them to recover all the accounts, do that, but if it starts taking months, it's time to fork.

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