He probably won‘t take over Linux though. The consensus is that GregKH will. He even handled the 4.19 release recently while Linus took a break.

I would not be worried in the slightest if GregKH had to take over. Not that I'd want Linus to leave, just sayin'. There's a few other good candidates among the lieutenants as well.

That Theodore Tso seems like a sharp guy. Hopefully he can put the controversy (whatever it was) behind him.

It's not his job to put the controversy behind him, the controversy was created by someone else. He only stated his opinion.

I haven't really followed the details. But if there is someone stirring up trouble, then that's what the new CoC is there to address.

This comment/thread made me curious, and I’m sharing this here in case others are as well.

Apparently it was this Tweet that started the controversy, which is actually related to the CoC itself as well: https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504?s...

Thanks. I knew of Tso of course through his impressive work on the RNG and was vaguely aware of some scandal involving him. Under the CoC as I understand it personal attacks are forbidden and surely dredging up something from 2011 out-of-context counts as that.

Oh, and my use of "sharp" in my original comment was obv unintentional, how funny

And Alan Cox.

And Larry Wall

Larry Wall is in charge of Perl, and has not even worked on the Linux kernel. He could not do Linus's job.

Thanks. He is however, _A_ benevolent dictator

That's beside the point.

>> I hope there is another benevolent dictator to take over once [Linux is] gone.

He is not even in charge of Perl anymore.

And Illumos.