On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:49:46, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Andrei Popescu: > >Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the > > evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being > > replaced by systemd everywhere. > > Tanstaafl: > >And why was OPenRC not a contender? > > Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, contrary > to what M. Popescu dismissively stated.
Quote from above, with added emphasis:
Upstart was the only *real* contender to systemd *at the time* of
the evaluation for the Technical Committee, [...]
> Several members of the technical
> committee took it and tried to use it themselves, just as they did the other
> systems; and it was included on the formal ballots and in the votes.
In my opinion that was more a formality, it was quite clear that OpenRC
would be beaten by both systemd and upstart. It did reach quorum though
(i.e. better than Further Discussion), which SysV did not.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00402.html
> Contrastingly, the people who were propounding OpenRC at the time provided a
> good example of how NOT to go about doing so. Their several mistakes are
> worth learning from.
Fully agreed.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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