Dear Guys, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes:
> one which is at least installable with apt-get + sid sources. that's > still not the case, despite 684396 being announced here a year ago. (Replying generally) There seems to be some doubts concerning why #684396 has taken a whole year without being finished. This fact is quoted by people to infer OpenRC is not serious and not for production. They are two things and should not be mixed. I am only going to respond to the first question here. On my side, I am offering to package OpenRC. I did not have a deep understanding of Debian packaging and learnt as I went, although I myself had been a user for 10 years. (My servers are Debian and Gentoo, laptop/desktops are Debian.) I was not in a hurry. After composing a wiki page[1] and having all my Debian boxes with OpenRC, I just spent a bit more time to evaluate the solution by actually using it for my own daily life and production. And yeah, it's partially because of laziness. I haven't seen people ping this bug and thought there is not a wide audience so I took my own pace. I don't think we are in a race with systemd. It feels that people developing or supporting systemd are competing against the world, as if they can dominate the community by rolling out more modern features, advancing fast enough, pushing others hard and finally rendering everything alternative into the museum. This is a nice commercial strategy and is more likely to succeed in competition. But I don't care about it. Things changed when it evolves into a GSoC project, where we have a student actively working on it. It becomes my duty to co-mentor with Thomas to realize the ITP. We are gaining momentum after the student, Bill Wang, has digested the basics. I can visualize that within two months we will have a off-the-shelf OpenRC package working with initscripts/sysvinit vanilla offering modern features like cgroups, at users' choice. Voice from upstream, the OpenRC team is well aware of the effort and is eager to take patches necessary to support Debian, provided it can both benefit Debian and Gentoo, as is often the case when we come down to this level of OS. Relax fellows. let's see what we can get and have fun. Cheers, Benda 1. http://wiki.debian.org/OpenRC
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