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Longtime Debian contributor Tollef Fog Heen has announced his resignation from the Debian systemd maintainer team. His announcement states that "the load of the continued attacks is just becoming too much."
He has since written a detailed blog article surrounding the circumstances of his resignation. As he puts it,
I've been a DD for almost 14 years, I should be able to weather any storm, shouldn't I? It turns out that no, the mountain does get worn down by the rain. It's not a single hurtful comment here and there. There's a constant drum about this all being some sort of conspiracy and there are sometimes flares where people wish people involved in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of incompetence.
This is yet another dramatic event affecting the Debian project in recent months. The adoption of systemd has been extremely controversial, even going so far as to result in calls for Debian to be forked. There have been other problems as of late, too, ranging from a serious bug breaking Wine just days before the Jessie freeze deadline, to the possibility of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD being dropped from Debian 8. And it was only just over a week ago that Joey Hess — another longtime Debian contributor — left the project, citing the "very unhealthy directions" that Debian has been led in lately.
Is the internal tension and strife caused by systemd about to tear the Debian project apart? Recent events such as the aforementioned have suggested that this is becoming more and more of a possibility. The repercussions of this drama will no doubt be felt wide and far, given Debian's own popularity, as well it forming the basis of other major Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 17 2014, @03:30PM
It has turned into a rabidly partisan issue.
Yeah, that's what generally happens when neither side want to compromise. The anti- crowd wants to take it out back and shoot it; the pro- crowd wants to force everyone to use it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @03:57AM
Nobody is trying to force anybody to use it. If they don't like it, they can fork whatever distro they like whose paid professionals chose it.
It is the other way around. Those of us who like it and like the progress are being told we shouldn't be allowed to have it, even when we've chosen a distro that uses it.
There is no reason to whine and complain about it. Just choose something that doesn't use it, and be done with it forever. There is NO UTILITY AT ALL in trying to take it away from those who use it, just because you want to use their distro, but with your own favorite choices. You can do that already by forking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @04:09AM
Systemd does not belong in Debian.
If you really want systemd, use a shitty distro like Fedora.
Everyone is happy that way.
Debian users get a stable, reliable system that just works.
Fedora users get the shitty, hype-driven system they so badly desire.