On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 20:35 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I think the bigger question is why are we doing this? > > > > There's some motivation here: > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html > > > > I was pretty clear in everything you cut off about the whole "You know > what people need, they need this" and the whole developers making things > for sysadmins because they think sysadmins need it thing. 0pointer.de is > Lennart's post. If this is only being developed and driven by the same > people perhaps we should just step back, get it functioning for a while, > _then_ lets talk about replacements. If you guys feel that strongly about > it, you'll still feel that way a year from now when the whole system is > developed and working right? Perhaps then it can go into Fedora? > > This should probably say "systemd for F16" +1 FWIW. I'm not a huge sysv fanboi either, but I do care about the experience of sysadmins and the upstream for other projects, and I would like to see some soak time for this before everyone needs to switch. I can otherwise just imagine the amount of documentation out there - books, online resources, etc. that will all be out of date for Fedora (and perhaps other projects later) but not for other distributions. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
