maintainers

Gentoo has masked its Chromium package and set removal for October 24 unless a volunteer takes over, as maintainers cite long builds, fast releases and a four-release lag.

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund has raised $350,000 and named its inaugural cohort of six paid maintainers, resolving details left open when the fund launched in June.

Morten Linderud, known as Foxboron, stepped down as an Arch Linux developer and security team member, leaving Pacman and other packages needing new maintainers.

GitHub says its Sponsors program has funneled more than $100 million to open source maintainers since 2019, with growth accelerating sharply.

The Rust Foundation opened a donation-backed fund on June 2 to pay maintainers of the compiler, standard library, Cargo, and Clippy, with the first Maintainer in Residence expected in the coming months.