Hector Martin, the project lead of Asahi Linux, has resigned from the effort, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel. Martin's resignation follows a disagreement about Rust drivers, which prompted him to quit his role as a maintainer of the upstream Linux kernel code for Apple's Arm Macs earlier this month.
Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned from that effort early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel.during a disagreement about Rust drivers prompted Martin to quit his role as a maintainer of the upstream Linux kernel code for Apple's Arm Macs earlier this month.
"And the response was the last drop that put me over the edge. I resigned from my position as an upstream maintainer for Apple ARM support, as I no longer want to be involved with that community." Fox argues that the key to a health software ecosystem is a functional community, which can be helped with funding.
Martin suggests his decision to leave Asahi Linux and the Linux kernel community behind follows from personal betrayal.
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