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Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.

Debian Developers Take To Voting Over Init System Diversity

It's been five years already since the vote to transition to systemd in Debian over Upstart while now there is the new vote that has just commenced for judging the interest in "init system diversity" and just how much Debian developers care (or not) in supporting alternatives to systemd.

Due to Debian developers having differing opinions on handling non-systemd bugs in 2019 and the interest/commitment to supporting systemd alternatives in the scope of Debian packaging and various related friction points, they've taken to a new general resolution over weighing init system diversity.

The ballot is available on-line. The choices are:

Choice 1: F: Focus on systemd
Choice 2: B: Systemd but we support exploring alternatives
Choice 3: A: Support for multiple init systems is Important
Choice 4: D: Support non-systemd systems, without blocking progress
Choice 5: H: Support portability, without blocking progress
Choice 6: E: Support for multiple init systems is Required
Choice 7: G: Support portability and multiple implementations
Choice 8: Further Discussion

[Ed. note: I'm not sure what the letters after the choice numbers indicate, nor do I know where "C" disappeared to.]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 10 2019, @04:29PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 10 2019, @04:29PM (#930632) Homepage Journal

    Doesn't suck as an idea but for the moment you can sub them as a story. Most of our eds are capable of figuring out something with "POLL" in the title and a list of choices is supposed to be a poll. When they're sober and have had their coffee anyway.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 10 2019, @04:32PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday December 10 2019, @04:32PM (#930633) Homepage
    What about those of us permanently on Kahlua benders?
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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:41PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:41PM (#930663) Homepage Journal

      Don't worry, as long as you can keep making at least half as many typos as cmn32480, we'll keep you around.

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:57PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:57PM (#930668) Journal

        Speed is substitute fo accurancy

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    • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:07AM

      by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:07AM (#930951)

      Or those of us who are Australian [youtube.com]?