Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Susped2 software suspend system for Linux [story] announced his retirement from the project in a mail sent to the Linux Kenel Mailing List.
""Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date.
"Now for the downside: I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not inclined to make a big effort beforehand.
Suspend2 worked better than the in-kernel software suspend solution, swsusp, for many people.
Update: Nigel has clarified that he will continue to work on Suspend2, he's merely going to have less time for it and will no longer be focused on merging it into the kernel. Suspend2 as a patchset is not going away. My apologies to anyone who was confused by this article. -Jeremy
List: linux-kernel Subject: Nigel's work and the future of Suspend2. From: Nigel Cunningham [email blocked] Date: 2006-03-07 0:05:51 Hi all. I'm delighted to announce that I've accepted a call to serve a congregation in Victoria, Australia, as a Home Missionary elder. As a result, some time in the next month or two, I will stop working for Cyclades and make the move. Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date. Now for the downside: I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not inclined to make a big effort beforehand. Recent discussions on LKML clearly showed that Pavel doesn't want to see them merged, and I didn't see much in the way of other kernel developers expressing a desire contrary to Pavel's wishes. I don't want to waste my time and effort, so I don't see the point to doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Cyclades for their employment and support of the project. Regards, Nigel
he's not going away
Nigel: "You haven't gotten confused like slashdot and kerneltrap, have you? I'm not going away. Just switching careers back to Christian ministry. I'll still be maintaining the suspend2 patches."
Indeed, find the above quote
Indeed, find the above quote here. Apologies to Nigel and anyone else reading the KernelTrap summary. In essence, Nigel is merely announcing that he's no longer going to be trying to get Suspend2 merged into the mainline kernel and will have less time to focus on it, but he fully intends to keep maintaining the patch as he uses it himself... Further clarification in his comments here.
Going, going...
All patches not intended to be merged are destined to die. With the pace of kernel development sooner or later (despite Nigel's best intentions) suspend2 *will* suffer bitrot.
The goal should be fixing swsusp for those users who don't find it currently optimal.
Not going away, just having a different situation
Nigel was working the last years outside of the kernel. Thus, I can not share your fears.
Your comment does not give credit to Nigel that he deserves. It is excellent and he always helped out hinting to solve a problem, in case one ever existed (like my sound card suspend method got rotten with the 2.6.15 release (it was fixxed just afterwards)
Thus I just can say: Thank you Nigel, in my opinion your work added a lot of fun using linux every day :-)
Major bummer
I'm sorry to hear this, as I'm using suspend2 on my laptop, and it's working perfectly :-/