Re: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization

[Richard Yao]

I plan to CC him when I make the official project announcement.

On 11/13/2012 06:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> I think we also ought to contact Linus, to have some input on what the
> forked-udev (vdev? gdev? nlpdev?) *shouldn't* be. Lest we tread the same
> path that led to him calling udev 'stupid'.
>
> Just my 2 cents. Apologies if it's worthless :-|
>
> Rgds,
> --
>  On Nov 13, 2012 4:32 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
>>> Dear Everyone,
>>>
>>> It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev
>>> has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes
>>> Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance
>>> seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes
>>> that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.'
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505
>>>
>>> After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus'
>>> concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to
>>> eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other
>>> things. We will announce the project later this week.
>>>
>>> I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related to
>>> udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another
>>> month so that we have time to get organized?
>>>
>>> Yours truly,
>>> Richard Yao
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried contacting other distros? They may face the same
>> problems with us and they might be interested
>> in helping us out.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
>>
>>
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