Fine. I accept your apologies Dan, but still believe this is not enough, now we have lost a major contributor and are in need of finding both sustainability and reliable agency. I am fully committed to the continued success of this project beyond any personal interest and believe we need to progress and perhaps extend Devuan so that it can be both a community effort and also a viable enterprise solution.
Following common understanding with other caretakers and parallel to the work on the conference documentation, I have started this website, soon to be linked by Devuan's official domain, served under TLS and completed with a list of willing partners as datacenterlight, your company and whoever will like: https://devuan.pro The reason for this is well described by what Katolaz wrote us in private and I believe is very important for us to understand: """ What will happen if tomorrow you will make a real mistake and tear down the whole Devuan infrastructure for two weeks? What will happen if in a week from now anyone makes a mistake building the sysvinit package and bricks 20K Devuan installations? I will tell you: there will be somebody who will ask your head to be served on a plate, because their customers were affected by your mistakes, she/he lost money, and it's all your fault. """ As a consequence of the April's fool it is clear that our NO WARRANTY license is not enough to protect the voluntary nature of community contributions. It is also clear that the centralized architecture of our infrastructure isn't apt for the scale we are achieving. Perhaps this situation is even a compliment to our efforts since so many professionals are coming our way escaping systemd's instability and seeking reliability for their work. And perhaps, rather than being suffocated by our own success, there is even sustainability behind the corner, if we manage to accrue resources for community efforts that are beneficial to all. In the coming weeks we'll work to define a certification program with partnering organisations we verify to be capable to offer enterprise level support for Devuan. This is not to turn Devuan into a company: to the contrary, is to clearly separate community efforts from commercial ones and establish a clear relationship between the two. We will ask senior business developers to help us articulate this offer in ways that can help improve Devuan's quality for both community and enterprise uses. So lets now get beyond any futile interpersonal argument and use our gear to provide for Devuan and those who like to believe in it. Besides this immediate solution, I remain devoted to facilitate an inclusive community development process in the direction of a distributed infrastructure; but for this we need more people to get involved: capable people who have time at hand and know how to have fun developing Devuan, without being treated like unpaid employees who are held liable for the business of others. Perhaps we will even be able to pay these people, at least making their life easier doing what they love. So this is an invitation to all readers: please consider contributing to Devuan, having your company adopting it and inviting colleagues to help. The coming months will be crucial for Devuan and we really depend on this wonderful community, whose great qualities were well visible at the conference, to keep up the project. ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng