Ian Jackson's general resolution to prevent init system coupling has failed to pass, the majority vote deciding that the resolution is unnecessary. This means that not only will Debian's default init be systemd, but packages will not be required to support other init systems. Presumably, this means that using other init systems on Debian (without using systemd as a base) will not be possible without major workarounds, or possibly at all. It also leaves the future of Debian projects such as kFreeBSD unclear, as systemd is linux specific.
The vote results can be found here
The winners are:
Option 4 "General Resolution is not required"
(Score: 1) by srobert on Wednesday November 19 2014, @09:24PM
All this talk of systemd as a dependency had me thinking that maybe gnome3 and cinnamon would never make it into the official FreeBSD ports tree. This morning both of them were added when I updated the tree. I think I'll try building cinnamon over the weekend and see how it works on my FreeBSD laptop.