So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API:
Mozilla: Opposed
WebKit: Opposed
Microsoft: Several concerns
W3C TAG: Several concerns
Developers: Mostly negative
Chrome: Ships anyway.
A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'
The Linux kernel finally, after 34 years, has a continuity plan for when Linus Torvalds gets hit by a bus.
The two key issues being:
1) The core Linux kernel is hosted on Torvalds’ personal Git repository.
2) Linus, himself, is responsible for pulling changes into that repository.
Obviously, the whole “Tovalds + Bus” scenario would be a problem.
The plan (in a nutshell): The Linux Foundation will figure it out, set up a new repository, and tell someone to merge the changes.