The Linux kernel maintenance staff are gradually working, and their enthusiasm is declining.

Article title: Linux kernel maintenance staff gradually become older and later enthusiastic about the decline. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

The annual Linux developer conference was held in San Francisco last week. at the conference, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said that thanks to the emergence of cloud computing and other technological trends, the Linux market position is very stable, however, some major maintenance personnel are getting older, but their successors are not mature or enthusiastic enough. Although the Linux kernel will be updated every two months, the development of core maintenance staff is already quite evident.

Grey Kroah-Harman, the sysfs kernel subsystem maintainer, pointed out: "The upper-layer staff are still unchanged, but it is necessary to maintain continuous personnel changes, if we have hindered the development of Linux, please let us know." James Bottomley, the SCSI subsystem maintainer, added: "There are more and more people here, and the intelligence of coding is growing. but if there is no successor, the Linux kernel will grow older ."

Andrew Morton, a well-known Linux developer, is more straightforward: "We are getting older and tired, but we haven't seen anyone joining us in Linux development as enthusiastically as we used ." He pointed out that once they find appropriate candidates, they will be selflessly trained.

Andrew Morton said that the Linux kernel will be updated every two months. The new version usually includes 10 thousand changes, and about 1100 to 1200 developers participate in code development, compared with the previous process, Linux is still moving forward steadily.