How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

woodstock · 2005-01-28 02:30:32

Hey.

With the recent problems with the Slackware maintainer Pat V. it got to me to thinking.

How long will Arch last?

I understand that Arch is a hobby distro and to me its way up there in the ranks of quality in my opinion, but what if one day Judd decides to stop, because he's bored or something happens to him, or he just simply can't work on Arch anymore. What will happen? Will the development of Arch/Pacman continue?

I know this is nothing to worry about, but I'm just curious.

What's your take?

Thanks in advance for any input.

rasat · 2005-01-28 04:04:00

In my opinion it should not be a problem. Arch is not a distro developing new things (tools and apps) but a base to install and upgrade packages/softwares developed by others. The base is still improving but I think its more fixes and making it more efficient. There is a small team working on it. Main thing what's going on is package maintenence and for this there are pkg maintainers.

sarah31 · 2005-01-28 05:27:20

Stock answer ... we'll see when the time comes.

Benedict_White · 2005-01-28 10:21:47

The bottom line is that the clever bits about Arch are:

1. The Package manager.

2. The philosophy.

Both could well outlast Judd, as he seems to have done them so well. (Well done to Judd)

He has made himself despensable in that sense. So in the Arch community no one is indespensable.

Arch will last as long as there are people to keep new packages rolling, and with how easy that actually is on Arch I can't see that stopping for quite some time.

Dusty · 2005-01-28 17:19:30

I expect Judd will hand over the reigns to somebody who cares. Current state of affairs, I'd expect it to be Jason Chu, but he may have moved on by then too. Its the same question as what happens to Linux after Linus, just on a much smaller scale. Arch is big enough that people won't let it die.

Dusty

phrakture · 2005-01-28 17:24:55

If I were Judd, I'd hand it off to Dusty... he he he

xerxes2 · 2005-01-28 17:38:48

∞

woodstock · 2005-01-28 18:20:57

I kinda figured that Arch has become big enough to be self-sufficient and I wasn't worried really.

I personally use both Slackware and Arch and was noticing a little bit of the impact that Slackware took once the one man show came to a halt.

As I understand Arch is not a one man show and much like Debian or Gentoo, it will continue regardless of who "runs" the show.

Thank you for the replies.

Moo-Crumpus · 2005-01-28 18:35:09

xerxes2 wrote:

∞

duuuuh ... impressing me much

Arch Linux

#1 2005-01-28 02:30:32

How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#2 2005-01-28 04:04:00

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#3 2005-01-28 05:27:20

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#4 2005-01-28 10:21:47

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#5 2005-01-28 17:19:30

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#6 2005-01-28 17:24:55

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#7 2005-01-28 17:38:48

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#8 2005-01-28 18:20:57

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

#9 2005-01-28 18:35:09

Re: How long will Arch last? - Positive post.

Board footer