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Myth 7. Linus is never coming back!
Linus is coming back.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel maintainer and pro tempore head of Linux, signed the Linux 4.19-rc5 release message, “Greg ‘keeping the seat warm for a few weeks’ k-h.”
He will return when he feels like it.
If I were a betting man, I’d say he’ll be back in time to manage the next release cycle, 4.20/5.0, later this fall. Or, to be terribly precise, Oct. 22, 2018, when Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit will be held in Edinburgh Scotland. After all, one of the reasons Torvalds stepped back from the kernel was because this event had to be rescheduled to meet his schedule.
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When all is said and done — for all the hubbub about the CoC and Torvalds stepping out for a while — Linux is still being developed. And, none of the worst case scenarios has shown any signs of happening. For all the sturm und drang, Linux continues on.
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