-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:40:53 -0500 From: Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org
Richard Yao wrote: > Dear Everyone, > > It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev > has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes > Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance > seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes > that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.' > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 > > After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' > concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to > eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other > things. We will announce the project later this week. > > I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related to > udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another > month so that we have time to get organized? > > Yours truly, > Richard Yao > Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev. Yeppie !! Me, I'm looking forward to seeing how this works and giving it a test run when it gets ready. Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, I hope. I wonder what they will name it tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!