From: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>
To: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
Cc: Supervision <supervision@list.skarnet.org>
Subject: Re: Is s6/s6-rc ready to be the ubiquitous init?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:41:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1giIbU-00040n-Fg@eggs.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111012453.22f63228@mydesk.domain.cxm>
[2019-01-11 01:24] Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> Hi all,
>
> Months ago IBM bought Redhat, and IBM might not want to throw a million
> a year at a dev group devoted to keeping the systemd leaky boat afloat.
> Meanwhile, just today another major systemd snafu emerged.
>
> If IBM bails on systemd, is s6/s6-rc ready to take its place? I mean we
> all know it's ready technically, and is well maintained, but is it ready
> politically, with help for distro packagers? Perhaps some documentation
> on best practices and making it easy to install s6/s6-rc.
>
> We could soon have a rare opportunity for a Linux-wide init change. I'd
> hate to see systemd replaced by more snake oil.
Wish it was true, and systemd got abandoned. While I am already
maintaining runit as init system in Debian (and do not spare cycles for
another init system), probably I could provide some assistance --
sponsor uploads, for example.
But currently, s6 is quite out-of-radars in Debian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-12 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-11 6:24 Steve Litt
2019-01-12 11:37 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-02-02 3:13 ` Steve Litt
2019-02-02 9:31 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-01-12 12:41 ` Dmitry Bogatov [this message]
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