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Ikey Doherty Missing from AerynOS for Six Months (linuxiac.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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AerynOS maintainer confirms that founder Ikey Doherty hasn’t been in contact for six months but assures the project remains stable and on track.

During my brief exchange yesterday with the AerynOS team about the coverage of their updated 2025.10 ISO release, they mentioned something about the project’s founder, Ikey Doherty, that I wasn’t entirely sure how to take at first — specifically the part that stated, “he stepped back six months ago.”

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 weeks ago

History repeats itself? Solus?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

This was widely anticipated

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.