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

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.”

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    4·
    18 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      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.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          2·
          17 days ago

          AerynOS seems to be ok though. Tune Morling (erno) seems to be very active in their repos and he is the current project lead.

          I mean, we will see. I guess it is still in Alpha.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          1·
          17 days ago

          Really looking forward to seeing where COSMIC goes now that they have the basics in place. It could really give Plasma and GNOME a run for their money.

          As a Niri user, I am also very thankful for the maturity that COSMIC is driving in projects like Smithay.