While I have a lot of respect for Ikey and think he's extremely talented, he tends to start a project and then either move to something else or disappear. Hey, life happens, and doing open source work for free is a grind, so it's not meant as an insult. But I'd see Serpent as a toy/POC rather than a long lived OS. I'm excited to try it, either way.
I -believe- I read that a lot of this work will be going into Solus, a previous Ikey project, which has a new team and small community now. So hopefully this is kinda best of both worlds if true for both sides.
Absolutely, thanks for pointing that out. I really hope it didn't come across as condescending, as I didn't intend it to be - because I have the same habit. Do something until it's not exciting anymore and move on. Though unlike myself more often, he tends to actually finish what he's working on initially.
I guess I was trying to paint a short historical picture and why I'm pretty excited about it as a Solus user - its package manager is a bit long in the tooth. I think could be a really great relationship having one team/person prototype and another adopt into something more stable.
Sometimes you start a project, more and more people start to collaborate, and eventually most of the project's contributors want to move it in a direction that doesn't interest you.
At that point you can either be a spoilsport, or step away amicably.
- it accomplished the task of teaching some technology/language/practice to the author, so that it becomes subjectively useless after that knowledge is absorbed.
Sometimes people start building a car because they need an incentive to practice making wheels.
I was a Solus user back when Ikey left. It was highly unusual, maintainer team had no insight, and frankly as a user it left a fairly bad taste.
But, Ikey had his reasons, and as I've grown up a bit over the years, I realize it is okay. Other maintainers picked up the tab pretty well, and for all its worth, quite a few of those maintainers have joined Ikey on this new distro, which signals a reconciliation.
Combined with other comments, I'd say what happened at Solus was imperfect, could have been communicated better, but probably still couldn't be avoided. Such is life.
I -believe- I read that a lot of this work will be going into Solus, a previous Ikey project, which has a new team and small community now. So hopefully this is kinda best of both worlds if true for both sides.