Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project’s continuity in the event that Linus Torvalds’ official Git repository were to disappear or otherwise be inaccessible for continuing the upstream development of the Linux kernel.

Linux engineer Dan Williams drafted the Linux project continuity document following the Maintainer Summit discussions over a plan of events should there be some unfortunate incident involving torvalds/linux.git.