blog/data/2009-07-22-sysvinit.txt

   1 Title: Taking over sysvinit development
   2 Tags: english, nuug, debian, bootsystem
   3 Date: 2009-07-22 23:00
   4
   5 <p>After several years of frustration with the lack of activity from
   6 the existing sysvinit upstream developer, I decided a few weeks ago to
   7 take over the package and become the new upstream.  The number of
   8 patches to track for the Debian package was becoming a burden, and the
   9 lack of synchronization between the distribution made it hard to keep
  10 the package up to date.</p>
  11
  12 <p>On the new sysvinit team is the SuSe maintainer Dr. Werner Fink,
  13 and my Debian co-maintainer Kel Modderman.  About 10 days ago, I made
  14 a new upstream tarball with version number 2.87dsf (for Debian, SuSe
  15 and Fedora), based on the patches currently in use in these
  16 distributions.  We Debian maintainers plan to move to this tarball as
  17 the new upstream as soon as we find time to do the merge.  Since the
  18 new tarball was created, we agreed with Werner at SuSe to make a new
  19 upstream project at <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/">Savannah</a>, and continue
  20 development there.  The project is registered and currently waiting
  21 for approval by the Savannah administrators, and as soon as it is
  22 approved, we will import the old versions from svn and continue
  23 working on the future release.</p>
  24
  25 <p>It is a bit ironic that this is done now, when some of the involved
  26 distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.</p>