CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up

guest · Oct 16, 2020

CUPS Printing System Open-Source Development Has Seemingly Dried Up
October 13, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-2020-CUPS-Git

At the end of 2019 the lead developer of CUPS left Apple after he joined Apple and the company purchased the source code a decade prior for this long-standing open-source printing system used by not only macOS but also Linux and other Unix-like platforms. This unfortunately has not bode well for CUPS in 2020.

As was recently pointed out by a Phoronix reader, the open-source CUPS code-base is now at a stand-still. There was just one commit to the CUPS Git repository for all of 2020 and that was a push by an Apple engineer with minor updates (including security fixes) for a point release.
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Generally there's been hundreds of commits per year until this year running into a screeching halt after Sweet left Apple.

It's possible Apple engineers are still working on CUPS internally and relying upon a private Git repository for development and will only be pushing public when there are enough accumulated changes for a new release, but that still doesn't bode well for open-source -- at least these days driver-less printing is common.
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