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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik escribió:
> As some are already aware of this and some aren't I'm posting it here.
>
> Quite a few people are unhappy with our current init setup. Be it the
> non-mainstream configuration(i.e. no usual /etc/init.d) be it
> unmaintained(simpleinit-msb) etc...

I'm one of the nonconformists :P, look at the signature ;).

Well, I'm a SourceMage user, but I hadn't got the time to install it
on my main system yet.

Our status on some distros:
http://www.initng.org/wiki/Documents_Distributions

I'm somewhat short of time now, but probably will have some spare time
in the near future, so I can help with InitNG :).

> So during the last two days while people are trying to solve a bug with
> simpleinit-msb and current Linux kernels I've been compiling the
> following wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Init_Plans
>
> It's based on the discussions that happened on irc. The overall consensus
> is that we should switch to a more mainstream, maintained and stable init
> system. This is a long term plan so don't expect any serious work being done
> on it in the next 6 months.
>
> We do have a green light from our project lead to start researching
> various init systems so that we could in the end make an informed
> decision about which one we would like.
>
> There is a table on the above mentioned page that list some init systems
> along with volunteers that are working on them.
>
> To make it clear. Multiple people can research the same init system and
> even multiple ones.
>
> What information do we want from this research:
>
> How well maintained the system is upstream?
> How robust is it?
> Pros?
> Cons?
> Community support?
> Can it run our current init scripts with little or no modifications(THIS IS
> IMPORTANT).
> Known unfixed bugs of it? Any security issues it had?
> Developer support?
> Anything else you can think of to add to the list?
>
> I expect people to add themselves to the list and start researching.
> I would like to have an initial report done by 2007-05-15, stuff like
> is this system viable for us, would it be easy/hard to change to it.
>
> Why that date. I'd like to present an initial overall report on this
> project on the next developer meeting. Note I will be pushing this project
> a lot. Main reason I would like to have all this init stuff finally
> resolved so that we can get on with more important things. I would also
> like to see qemu images with an implementation but that should be more at
> the end of the research(6 months from now or so).
>
> So if you're interested in *any* other init system and I do mean ANY even
> if it's not on the list add it and start researching. If any of the
> init's on the list won't be taken by the next developer meeting they will
> more than likely be removed from the list.
>
> !!!BEING A DEVELOPER IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR THIS PROJECT!!!
>
> Thank you for your attention.

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