sysvinit VS initng VS upstart VS launchd (Was: Future New Init for FC7?)

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:38:26 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I think this is a very wrong direction for fedora. Free software is
> about choice. And also being able to test innovative technologies.
> The default init system should be privileged, but all should be present,
> such that power users are able to test and use them. The directions that
> developers and packagers want to follow, how they spend their time is
> their business. If there are enough people interested in new init
> systems, lets have them. As a project we have to watch out the packaging
> quality, the integration in the distro and have good defaults. Our
> mandate should not to be in the way of initiatives.

At the same time, I don't want to stamp the Fedora name on something that has 
6 half working init system choices, but none that work fully.  It's the same 
reason we don't ship 6 different kernel compiles (other than xen or no xen, 
smp or no smp, these are because one won't work across all hardware 
sets/systems).  Certain things in the distro have to be rock solid, the init 
system is one of those.

Now, I'm all for seeing development happen and initiatives.  You can create a 
secondary repo around trying out a new init system.  I just don't want to see 
them clutter up the main repos that every user gets access to.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20070405/180d7de2/attachment-0002.bin