[2019-01-11 01:24] Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > Hi all, > > Months ago IBM bought Redhat, and IBM might not want to throw a million > a year at a dev group devoted to keeping the systemd leaky boat afloat. > Meanwhile, just today another major systemd snafu emerged. > > If IBM bails on systemd, is s6/s6-rc ready to take its place? I mean we > all know it's ready technically, and is well maintained, but is it ready > politically, with help for distro packagers? Perhaps some documentation > on best practices and making it easy to install s6/s6-rc. > > We could soon have a rare opportunity for a Linux-wide init change. I'd > hate to see systemd replaced by more snake oil.
Wish it was true, and systemd got abandoned. While I am already maintaining runit as init system in Debian (and do not spare cycles for another init system), probably I could provide some assistance -- sponsor uploads, for example. But currently, s6 is quite out-of-radars in Debian.
