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Moving the goalposts

Moving the goalposts

Posted Mar 5, 2013 5:53 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Moving the goalposts by drag
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

The stated reason for sticking with upstart is that it took them five releases to make it work somehow and they expect the same kind of breakage from systemd.

> http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/upstart-beyond-Ubuntu-12-04...

It obviously never occurred to them that making upstart work was hard because it, you know, is upstart.


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Moving the goalposts

Posted Mar 7, 2013 20:27 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

From my point of view, it took so long because of lack of manpower. That problem didn't get solved until recently (the last 6 months or so?).

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