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Just a side note: sudo is largely maintained by just one dude https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors


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Side note that I've always found interesting: sudo is almost entirely maintained by one dude: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors

Wow. I thought sudo was maintained by kernel devs. Kudos to the maintainer tho

Fun fact: sudo is maintained by an OpenBSD developer

For sudo scientists.

Ha! That’s cute. Didn’t even realize sudo had it own web site :)

From his personal page:

For the past 30+ years I’ve been the maintainer of sudo. I’m currently in search of a sponsor to fund continued sudo maintenance and development. If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring sudo, please let me know.[0]

[0]: https://www.millert.dev/



wow, I never realized sudo is from 1980[0]! I thought it was a product of the late '90s. It's actually incredible it has managed to stay around this long.

[0] https://www.sudo.ws/history.html


Wow he changed two million lines of the sudo codebase over the project history and made 10,548 commits. That's bonkers. Sudo is clearly doing a lot more under the hood than I thought it did. A simple security critical command shouldn't have that much churn. It should arc towards immutability like TeX, which has had like twelve changes in the last 40 years.

Sudo has had its own debacles.

sudo !!

sudo !!

sudo !!

sudo !!

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sudo !!

Projects maintained by OpenBSD developers outside OpenBSD

* Sudo (...1980...)

wow. I didn't even think about sudo like that...


"currently maintained" seems to imply that this is a recent thing, so just to point out, millert has been maintaining sudo since before 1994.

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