Todd Kulesza Leaving Dropline GNOME

Lispy writes "The founder of the popular Dropline GNOME environment for Slackware, Todd Kulesza, announced yesterday that he is leaving his project. In a note on the Dropline homepage he explains that he simply doesn't have the time to maintain three different Open Source projects anymore. With Patrick Volkerding being temporarily out of business and Todd leaving Dropline GNOME, I guess the future for Slackware GNOME fans doesn't look bright these days. Who wants to hop in and continue Dropline?"

Comments

Vulnerability.

[MarkRose]

This is the primary reason why I never got into slack. Slack is basically built by one man, and it's the same story with the gnome packages for slack. While this can give a project a strong direction, it also leaves the project very vulnerable to the whims and lives of those maintaining it. And while I could figure out how to maintain it myself, I don't have the resources to do a proper job, and thus I stick with more popular, team-produced projects.