Re: ConsoleKit has been forked

2014-11-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:18:25PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: That's a nice step. Now we just need someone to maintain the consolekit codepaths in all the desktop environments, in policykit and in other users. It's being maintained by XFCE until the systemd API's are good enough in

Re: Re: Legitimate exercise of our constitutional decision-making processes [Was, Re: Tentative summary of the amendments]

2014-10-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 06:07:20PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: Is systemd the problem or is the GNOME Desktop Environment[0] ? Could you maybe address this within GNOME first instead of on Debian? Going to Debian because you have a concern within GNOME seems rather counter productive. First

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 09:56:33AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: All this talk about what upstream developers will and won't do. Seems to me that they've been writing sysvinit scripts for years; systemd support ADDS work. It's only the GNOME developers who are being rather vocal about not

Re: Tentative summary of the amendments

2014-10-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:57:49PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: The root of the problem is coming from upstream not caring about alternative init systems. To take the logind case as an example - each of the dependencies from GDM to systemd make perfect sense in isolation. However, the end

Re: Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55:34AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The same applies to many upstream developers, they develop software mainly for themselves, not the users, see for example the latest development of Gnome. The only way to change this is by creating a large enough user group taking

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:38:36PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2014 06:08 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:55:34AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: The same applies to many upstream developers, they develop software mainly for themselves

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 09:16:49AM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Actually that is a *very* similar issue. Apps should be window-manager-neutral as much as they should be init-system-neutral. Imagine if suddenly all Gnome apps stopped working unless you were running Metacity. It should not be

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:23:15PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: Because of pressure of other upstreams going forward everyone adopted it and this makes it non controversial - i dont get it?!? The adaption in openSUSE and Mageia was not due to this. The discussion is public. If you claim above

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 06:23:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Friday 17 October 2014 05:10 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: The world isn't just GNOME. The issue is bigger than just GNOME. Think of e.g. UPower. There is various other software which is affected by this. Requiring people

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:15:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems): Since, in my opinion, this question is all about how the project wants to govern itself and how we want to handle assigning responsibility for work