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Hi Manjeet, |
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It is really awesome to have you propose your own project. |
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Manjeet Singh <itsmanjeet1998@×××××.com> writes: |
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> My name is Manjeet Singh, I am a 3rd year CSE student from Guru Gobind |
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> Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India |
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> for my GSOC 2020 I want to work on Openrc init system of Gentoo by |
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> improving its performance. Currently openrc is using a lot of tools |
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> and processes to start a simple service scripts (POSIX shell, |
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> start-stop-daemon, rc-depends, rc-sstat...) and use shell to parse |
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> init scripts. these things make openrc slow to start services and |
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> result in slow bootup, so idea is to develop some native tools for |
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> openrc that will parse the service scripts files, check prerequisites, |
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> start services daemons or commands. |
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Honestly, I don't think boot-up speed is that important. Anyway, you |
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should measure it first to understand where the bottleneck is. |
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I regard using several small tools and shell scripts a big selling point |
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of OpenRC being understandable, hackable and extensible. |
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> I used openrc under gentoo, and setup it on arch, void and lfs, and |
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> found it really awesome (i don't like systemd) and found openrc a |
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> better alternative of systemd. Also i already a simple and minimal |
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> service manager like tool that will parse a service file in INI format |
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> and start or stop a service. I will now trying to developed some |
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> similar tools for openrc to boost its performance and i found gsoc |
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> 2020 a better way to interact with this organization and develop this |
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> tools under proper guidance. |
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I am co-mentoring at Debian GSoC for making a systemd unit compatible |
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layer for OpenRC[1]. With systemd units being popular among upstreams, |
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that will make OpenRC more future-proof. If you are not falimiar with |
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Debian, you could choose to reuse that idea at Gentoo. |
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> any further guidelines about the possibilities and issue will be very |
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> helpful Thanks for the time and consideration |
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Thank you for expressing interest on OpenRC. |
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Yours, |
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Benda |
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1. https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2020/Projects#SummerOfCode2020.2FApprovedProjects.2Fsystemd_unit_translator.Systemd_unit_translator |
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