Re: Opensource.com Zsh article

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-09-18 3:37 p.m., Martijn Dekker wrote:
> >   I understand that there's no one left in the cockpit at bash, would 
> > that not be a better reason?
>
> What makes you think that? If you read through the bug-bash list it's 
> pretty obvious that Chet is still firmly in charge and actively 
> developing bash as always. It had a new major 5.0 release fairly 
> recently as well, which make it run scripts quite a lot faster.

Chet himself informed me of that.  But it seems he's been a one man show 
for 26 years!   It seems a bit of a fragile situation.


> Apple has plenty of in-house manpower and expertise to take over zsh 
> development if the need should ever arise. 

How would that work in practice?  I mean a 'takeover' wouldn't seem to 
be desirable but a contribution of resources  might be. Who has the last 
word in these things?