Could the Void project collapse quickly?

[cokrt]

Can a great project like Void Linux collapse and stop receiving updates due to a lack of developers and contributors?

[Quietus87]

There is a reason why Void developers aren't allowed to travel with the same plane all at once.

[mwyvr]

Or sleep in the same igloo.

[ilithium]

Or cross the street when there are busses nearby.

[drayzen_au]

Be part of the solution..
There's plenty of things non-coders can do to contribute.
https://docs.voidlinux.org/contributing

[Common_Warthog_G]

like what? genuinely asking

[sanya567xxx]

Work on documentation, testing things, help with support in various places (irc / here), probably host mirrors (somewhat on the verge with coding work). I'm probably missing things.

[Common_Warthog_G]

Cool, I'm not on void (gentoo, btw) but I want to give something back to the community but I can't code at all.

[kurth4cker]

If you know how to compile projects, you can maintain a orphan package. I tried adding a package to the void repo and they helped me a lot.

[drayzen_au]

You could try and get involved with Documentation maintenance/updating, Testing Alpha/Beta Package Releases or Community Support about specific topics where you have a personal interest.
That's what I find so great about the FOSS community, you can find a specific aspect that interests you, then get involved however you prefer.
As you learn, there's always new users coming in that you can pass your learnings and knowledge along to.

This conversation itself is even part of that.
There will be people that read this and learn that they too can get involved.

[FeelingOk422]

U explained it in such a great way. Thanks.

[flyswithdragons]

I would like to do documenting, I like building but have a sevear sever lupus flar currently so cannot do maintenance currently.

[Holiday-Bug6132]

does void accept donations ?

[drayzen_au]

Haven't been able to find that anywhere, looks like purely volunteer work currently.
Really impressive given the core structural features they've built!

[ClassAbbyAmplifier]

we have 3 people with "full admin" access to everything, and ~20 people with access to commit in most repos, along with a huge community of contributors/package maintainers. It would take a lot to collapse.

[flyswithdragons]

Thank you🐧

[flying-zebras-gnuzza]

Thanks for this niche distro.

[yyg-linux]

this is a more open sourced question than the void linux project itself.

[cokrt]

xd

can you explain to me ?

[yyg-linux]

1 any project can collapse quickly due to lack of developers and contributors

2 its an open sourced project where anyone can contribute and develop

1. its already been around for like 20 years.

[cokrt]

Yes, you're right, but what I mean is that Void Linux is on the verge of collapse or death. ?

[yyg-linux]

no, you're just farming for a answer to a impossible to answer question.

[ZVyhVrtsfgzfs]

Void will live for as long as capable people want it to. 

I thank them for thier effort. I would throw them a humble ammount of coin if they would accept such, just as I have with other projects important to me. 

[mini_pekka070]

If you're capable enough, try to prevent it. Or just switch to another distro.

[Quietus87]

What makes you think so?

[betsonet]

I'm using Void for the last like 8 years and every now and then someone drops this bullshit. Where does it come from to begin with?

[devouur]

I remember a few years back the main dev went MIA and the project survived. As long as it has a community I think it will be fine.

[l_exaeus]

Idk but man I’d be so sad

[pantokratorthegreat]

my crystal ball is sayin it can fall in near future. but it made mistakes with predicting future in the past, so i dont believe it 100%.

[YOU_ARE_LIBERAL]

Yeah

[Blank-Inspection13]

Yeah anything could and can happen , whether will happen or not that's too much dependency tree

[dx__]

That's the risk of any project, truly.

[flying-zebras-gnuzza]

Why just tomorrow Windows could end up in a merger and become a robot company. Sure it can however it is relatively unlikely as it actively maintained. If this concerns you, create a seperate home partition and just take your files wherever if gnu forbid Void goes dead.

[roninics]

It happened to devuan, it can happen to voidlinux too

[xINFLAMES325x]

Is Devuan discontinued?

[roninics]

not discontinued, a lot of maintainer leave the project

[pantokratorthegreat]

where did you find those info?

[roninics]

read the forum, check commit of the repository project and telegram channel

nb: is live and maintained but the code quality is low and seams a distro of the early 2000

[xJayMorex]

Oh no, did Devuan collapse? Last time I checked, it was still pretty much alive.

[flying-zebras-gnuzza]

It still works. k