On 28 November 2014 at 12:41, Ben Tinner <bentin...@yahoo.com.sg> wrote: > Hello > > > Recently, the developers of Ubuntu have decided to migrate the init system > from upstart to systemd. > > So, I would like to find out what will happen to upstart after Ubuntu > complete its transition to systemd. > > Will development of upstart be abandoned after the transition is completed?
At the moment Ubuntu Phone, Ubuntu (and derivatives) and ChromeOS are the largest users of Upstart. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a long-term supported release, 5 years, until 2019. Similarly, 16.04 LTS is not yet planned, thus i'm not sure whether it will or won't ship upstart. If it does, it will be another 5 years from then, or 2021. I do not know the support time-frames of the phone product, it's a question for Canonical and their partners, rather than the Ubuntu project. But at the moment it is based on Upstart as well. 2019-2021 is far enough into the future that all predictions are moot. Upstart is very large and stable piece of software and it is not under active (rewrite) / feature work. Thus latest work is mostly focused on extending and creating optional features or fixing corner case bugs in the core. One of the largest portions of work that is not merged is incomplete support for FreeBSD kernel (and GNU user-space) as shipped by the Debian kFreeBSD port. That has stalled a bit, since my interests have shifted and Debian kFreeBSD port is no longer planned for "official-official" release. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss