What do we as a community need to do
 to get S6 into a "corporate friendly" state?

What can I do to help?


Here are some ideas:
- easier access to the VCS (git, pijul, etc)
- Issue tracking system
- CI/CD build chain (being careful not to make it too painful to use)
- "idiot proof" website
- quick start / getting started guide
- easier access (better?) Documentation

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022, 09:21 Steve Litt, <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 17:19 +0000, J.R. Hill wrote:
> > There are a few things that need to be in place for a smooth transition.
> >
> > For general trust in the project...
> >
> > 1. the init system itself should be maintained by more than a single
> human.
>
> This hasn't been the case with runit. It's so darn simple people *do*
> trust it, even
> though it was written by one guy and he stepped away.
>
> > 2. the maintainers should be willing to respond to a large audience. (If
> a project
> > is used widely across distributions and is critical to operation and
> security,
> > it'll attract attention from armies of newbies and large cloud
> corporations
> > alike.) This means there needs to be an ability to move slow (maintain
> backwards
> > compatibility) and also to move fast (in security situations)
>
> True. All I can say is runit does one thing and does it well, appears to
> have no
> known security flaws, has a small attack surface, so there's little call
> for
> updates.
>
> > 3. the project should be available from some trusted platform with
> versioning and
> > source history.
> >
> > For ease of transition...
> >
> > 4. many init scripts need to exist, or they need to be trivial to write.
>
> The originator of runit gives many example scripts, AND they are trivial
> to write.
> See http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html .
>
>
> >
> > I'll give some thoughts on runit:
> >
> > I'll start by saying that I've used Void linux for a few years now, and
> I love
> > using runit. It's simple, it works, and it's understandable. That's the
> opposite
> > of my experience with systemd. I'm not passionately against systemd (or
> the
> > developers, or RedHat, or even IBM), and I think systemd is technically
> impressive
> > and ambitious. But also I don't really want to use it or anything like
> it.
> >
> > > It's maintained by the Void Linux project...
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't think this is true. It's used by Void, but we're
> packaging
> > it by building from the source tarball like anyone else.
>
> I guess what I meant was https://github.com/void-linux/runit . That's the
> source
> code, maintained by the Void Linux project, and it's up to individual
> distros to
> package it for their distro.
>
> SteveT
>