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From: "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:11:04
Message-Id: 4C30EA89.4020806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo by Ryan Hill
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4 On 07/04/2010 02:39 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:17:25 +0200
6 > Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> How are we supposed to handle the amount of installations out there
9 >> that are using OpenRC then?
10 >> OpenRC/bl-2 have proven to be a big improvement over the old stuff. I
11 >> am for fixing current bugs, and keep it maintenance mode at least.
12 >> I'm already spread over several things but I could give a hand to
13 >> other devs willing to take over.
14 >
15 >
16 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_21f716d5ffa6f04520e39d12fbe43452.xml
17 >
18 >> The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's
19 >> maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied
20 >> for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being
21 >> planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have
22 >> always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with
23 >> the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in
24 >> the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step
25 >> up to develop and maintain this code.
26 >
27 >
28 > I would say it's settled down now.
29 >
30 > I don't think stable can wait another 2-3 years on baselayout-1 while we
31 > switch to yet another rc system.
32 >
33 >
34 For those of you not on the #gentoo-dev channel, I just announced I am
35 gonna be looking at the openrc code and fixing the bugs and working to
36 continue the development. Anyone that is interested in helping please
37 feel free to contact me off list to discuss how we will handle getting
38 openrc back on track.
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42 Jory A. Pratt anarchy -at- gentoo.org
43 Gentoo Mozilla Lead
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>