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Who disappears like that without saying anything. Obviously something happened to him.
The article says he stepped back, but it doesnt say that he did that, only that he stopped showing up.
He did exactly this with Solus, he didn't even respond to requests to release maintainership to someone else for months. He's the reason project governance boards were invented.
Brilliant coder, but he flames out and fucks off.
Really looking forward to seeing where COSMIC goes now that they have the basics in place. It could really give Plasma and GNOME a run for their money.
As a Niri user, I am also very thankful for the maturity that COSMIC is driving in projects like Smithay.