IBM/Red Hat Seems to be in "State of Crisis" and "Now Truly an out of Control 6 Alarm Dumpster Fire."
Last night we took stock of the (almost) sole thread discussing IBM RAs (layoffs) this week and it has since then been said about the layoff procedure: "Your first line gets notified a week or less in advance. On Thursday or Friday before the week of the RA they will get an email with the list of people and a link to a short training video and the script to read. IBM has this down to a science."
Among the other comments we see focus on people who "worked their arse off weekends and nights" and still got laid off:
To us, the more valuable part is the part where they speak about the dates of layoffs, the signs - one might say 'signatures' - of "RAs", and someone there says "1Q" (maybe meant to be "Q1" as in quarter one or first quarter in 2026 for next wave of layoffs).
IBM is shedding off much-needed* staff from Red Hat at an alarming rate. Even Phoronix seems somewhat concerned about it. They're meanwhile releasing X software instead of Wayland. Will the roadmap change due to "too high expectations"** or scarce resources? █
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* People whose presence in some critical project/s is considered critical. There are many such projects in GNU and in Linux, also in graphical applications.
** Wayland is a fantastic example of this. They're been telling us for about a decade already that Wayland's adoption will be widespread and Wayland will become mainstream "some time next year" or "real soon now". That's still not happening.