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Tom Wijsman posted on Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:19:20 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> The OpenRC project appears less active these days than it used to be. |
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> There are many commits per month the last years, but the amount of |
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> commits in 2014 per month has noticeably decreased to a crawl [1]. |
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> Alongside that, there appears to be around ~100 bugs open for OpenRC [2] |
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> on Gentoo Bugzilla; some of which are left without a response. |
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> This gives the impression that the development of it is slowing down. |
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> Worth noting is that WilliamH recently had problems with his system, we |
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> have since not seen him on IRC for almost a month; so, this can for a |
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> part explain the last month of inactivity. |
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> [1]: Short log of proj/openrc history, decreasing commits in 2014. |
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> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=shortlog |
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> [2]: Overview of bugs that involve OpenRC, most for the package itself. |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc |
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Also worth noting. |
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For several years I was one of the few users (where gentoo devs count as |
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users too) running live-git openrc-9999 and reporting issues, a |
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significant number of which were fixed before they made it into a release |
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at all. Filter bugs on ALL sys-apps/openrc-9999 and take a look[a], |
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there's others reporting issues early on, but since 2010, all but two of |
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the bugs are mine, the two being the latest bug, filed and fixed in mid- |
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January, and one from 2013 that's actually a feature-request to duplicate |
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git-log functionality in a changelog that was RESOLVED/WORKSFORME. |
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But I recently took the plunge and switched to systemd. Given the bug |
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history, that very likely means there is now almost almost *NO* one doing |
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pre-release testing and bug-filing on live-git openrc-9999! For openrc |
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users and supporters[b] that could/should be quite an alarming danger |
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sign! |
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For gentoo users/admins that are reasonably good in shell but don't |
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really do C/C++ or even perl/python/etc, because so much of openrc is |
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effectively shell scripts this is a rare opportunity to actually read |
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code and very possibly contribute real patches, not just report bugs that |
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otherwise there's limited opportunity to actually participate in fixing! |
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=:^) |
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The biggest problem from my perspective as an openrc tester was (as |
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bernalex already mentioned in a more general context) lack of |
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documentation on the openrc-specific commands/shell-vars |
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called/used from what is otherwise effectively shell code. |
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Some of the vars are/were documented as part of the runscript (8) manpage, |
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but for the commands, generally symlinks to the (single executable, multi- |
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call) executable itself, the only documentation I could find is that |
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available from their help option, which is slightly inconvenient to get |
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since these executables are considered openrc internals and are thus not |
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exposed from the standard $PATH var. I had filed a couple bugs [c,d] on |
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this too but recently closed the commands bug [c] with a note that I'm on |
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systemd now and thus couldn't really test documentation anyway, but that |
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the bug could be reopened if anyone else was interested. Williamh closed/ |
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fixed the vars bug [d] back in January, but I didn't really look too |
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closely to see how well the new documentation works as I switched not |
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long after. |
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So anyway, "position open" for live-git openrc tester. And should |
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someone familiar enough with the openrc-internal commands to document |
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them wish to do so, it would surely help anyone volunteering for that |
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open position. =:^) |
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[a] |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=openrc-9999 |
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[b] While I'm no longer a user (except technically on one old system that |
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I don't keep current) I still consider myself a supporter. |
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[c] Commands bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489356 |
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sys-apps/openrc many helper command symlinks undocumented |
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[d] Vars bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489344 |
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sys-apps/openrc RC_* vars undocumented in runscript (8) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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