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On 11/13/2012 07:07 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Anthony G. Basile<blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 11/13/2012 04:31 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Richard Yao<ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> Dear Everyone, |
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>>>> It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that udev |
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>>>> has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes |
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>>>> Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance |
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>>>> seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes |
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>>>> that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.' |
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>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 |
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>>>> After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' |
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>>>> concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to |
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>>>> eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other |
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>>>> things. We will announce the project later this week. |
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>>>> I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related to |
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>>>> udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another |
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>>>> month so that we have time to get organized? |
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>>>> Yours truly, |
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>>>> Richard Yao |
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>>> Have you tried contacting other distros? They may face the same |
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>>> problems with us and they might be interested |
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>>> in helping us out. |
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>> We already thought of that. Does anyone know someone at debian? |
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>> Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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>> Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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>> E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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> Not me, but I guess this needs to be posted on a mailing list instead |
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> of contacting a single person or team. |
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Let's get something going before we start involving people. I'm |
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planning on trying to gut out systemd stuff and reduce it to just udev |
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code on Thursday. Once this looks like a viable starting point we can |
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get other distros involved. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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