On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 17:19 +0000, J.R. Hill wrote: > There are a few things that need to be in place for a smooth transition. > > For general trust in the project... > > 1. the init system itself should be maintained by more than a single human.
This hasn't been the case with runit. It's so darn simple people *do* trust it, even though it was written by one guy and he stepped away. > 2. the maintainers should be willing to respond to a large audience. (If a > project > is used widely across distributions and is critical to operation and security, > it'll attract attention from armies of newbies and large cloud corporations > alike.) This means there needs to be an ability to move slow (maintain > backwards > compatibility) and also to move fast (in security situations) True. All I can say is runit does one thing and does it well, appears to have no known security flaws, has a small attack surface, so there's little call for updates. > 3. the project should be available from some trusted platform with versioning > and > source history. > > For ease of transition... > > 4. many init scripts need to exist, or they need to be trivial to write. The originator of runit gives many example scripts, AND they are trivial to write. See http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html . > > I'll give some thoughts on runit: > > I'll start by saying that I've used Void linux for a few years now, and I love > using runit. It's simple, it works, and it's understandable. That's the > opposite > of my experience with systemd. I'm not passionately against systemd (or the > developers, or RedHat, or even IBM), and I think systemd is technically > impressive > and ambitious. But also I don't really want to use it or anything like it. > > > It's maintained by the Void Linux project... > > Unfortunately I don't think this is true. It's used by Void, but we're > packaging > it by building from the source tarball like anyone else. I guess what I meant was https://github.com/void-linux/runit . That's the source code, maintained by the Void Linux project, and it's up to individual distros to package it for their distro. SteveT
