On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:16 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
> > > > My suggestion is that you keep both init systems, SysV/LSB and systemd,
> > > > as separate offerings out of many, and forever so.
> > >
> > > We'll take that under advisement.
> >
> > Ajax,
> >  That remark is also unnecessary and just comes across as snarky. The
> > only thing this will achieve is to keep other people from being willing
> > to comment on issues in the future.
>
> So, the preference is to say nothing at all?

I'd suggest something along the lines of 'sorry, but maintaining two
officially-supported init systems side-by-side is an excessive burden on
package maintainers and quality assurance, so we won't be doing it'.
It's hard to go wrong by just politely saying what you mean.