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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @06:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @06:21PM (#930680)

    >> There is a lot of duplication of efforts

    That is exactly why Poettering is doing the community a huge favor by incorporating new functionality into systemd... he accepts your suggestion to add hosting, bug tracking, packaging systems, packaging itself and there is no end in sight.