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Suspend2 Suspended

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-careful-of-burnout dept.

musicon writes "Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a message to the Linux Kenel Mailing List. 'Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date [...] I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel [...] I don't see the point to doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.'"

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  1. I'm not resigning. by nigelcunningham · · Score: 5, Informative

    I guess I didn't write that email well enough - I tried to clearly say I'm not resigning, just switching full-time jobs, and as a result won't be working on Suspend as much. Given that it's already pretty mature, this won't have much effect on it's development, and I'll still be producing patches for vanilla kernels. Hope that helps. Nigel

  2. Misleading subject by .tom. · · Score: 5, Informative

    This post's subject is misleading:
    - suspend2 project is not suspended
    - Nigel Cunningam will keep working on it
    - it's only inclusion in vanilla kernel (mainline) which is unclear

    Trying to make puns in subjects is not always a good idead...