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If push came to shove, even without this official plan, it's likely that the kernel community would easily reach an agreement. After all, as Torvalds himself remarked in the past, there are not a lot of open-source projects that "have maintainers that have literally been around for over three decades".
Despite expressing some concern about the number of maintainers earlier in the decade, he's not currently concerned about the technical acumen of the talent pool, either, going as far as saying that "it's not instant, but there are new people who come in, and three years later they are a main developer."
This scenario should be familiar to any software project manager, as it illustrates the key concept of "bus factor," or the number of people that can get hit by a bus before your project is in trouble. Right now, that figure is a nice round zero for the Linux kernel, despite the community being good at self-management. For the time being, Linus Torvalds hasn't expressed any desire to stop being the Linux kernel head, but any increase in the bus factor is welcome, especially coming from nil.
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