Lengthy post ahead, go ahead and grab some popcorn or juice. Hi everyone,
For some time now you may have noticed a new BLFS branch managed by me named "krejzi". That branch was branched off BLFS trunk while adding and improving instructions from BLFS systemd and improving instructions from trunk (most of them were cosmetic tweaks as I seem to be a consistency freak). It's what I call a fork of the BLFS systemd book maintained by me. While I do not intend to push back the systemd branch I have received many complains about stuff from systemd branch not working very well recently. As a LFS systemd maintainer I feel like it's my duty to provide a stable (or at least "just working") instructions for BLFS, but I had no other way to do so than to start my own branch since users don't really care about reporting issues on mailing lists or bugzilla and for personal reasons, I don't want either. The branch is now in a usable state - in a state where systemd branch should've been - minus two packages that I have yet to review and fix up (and, for the latter, to sync with the main book instructions) - lxdm and polari. Most if not all of the issues have been addressed (maybe some got slipped during the merge). The book will be published online, but not as an official release (ie, won't be visible from main website) and will most likely be placed on my personal web space www.lfs.org/~krejzi rather than having a new book at www.lfs.org/blfs/view/whatever. But, I will link from LFS systemd pages (where needed) to the new book because of the reasons above and probably will make an official release snapshot when the time is right so the users of LFS systemd have a stable (as much as trunk is actually, minus the new packages which aren't many) and always (or at least 99% of the time) working instructions for whatever they need and with help of Bruce's currency scripts it will be easy to manage. But enough about ranting and stuff like that, I have some questions. What I was unable to think of is a proper name for new book. I went with systemd-ng (ng = new generation) but I instantly received a complaint so the branch got renamed after just few hours. The branding in the XML still remains but I'd like to use some different name if possible and I'm interested in suggestions on how to name it. Also, instead of svn (where it was hosted until yesterday), I moved to github and will continue to manage my fork using git fom now on. Repository can be found at https://github.com/elkrejzi/BLFS If any of the current editors want to contribute directly, just mail me your public SSH key in order to gain commit access. I have yet to publish a rendered version, but when the time is right, I'll do so and will properly announce it. This mail is just for the current developers (and possibly users). Any comments, rants, critics are welcome. I ain't sorry for the long post, but I am for all the hastle that this post might create. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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