Single Lennart of Failure? [LWN.net]

Single Lennart of Failure?

Posted Jun 18, 2014 8:56 UTC (Wed) by dakas (guest, #88146)
In reply to: Single Lennart of Failure? by clump
Parent article: Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems

In a worst case scenario, the source code is still there for others to fix or replace.

That's like putting your food store in a cave with hibernating bears. In a worst case scenario, there will be an animal trainer in the next travelling circus.

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Single Lennart of Failure?

Posted Jun 18, 2014 12:10 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link] (3 responses)

Suppose the systemd maintainers abandon their work. Recall devfs: https://lwn.net/Articles/139595/

It wouldn't be ideal if key maintainers disappeared, however it wouldn't stop Linux.

Single Lennart of Failure?

Posted Jun 18, 2014 16:52 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

How many systemd contributers are there now? Hundreds?

Might as well speculate what will happen if all the GCC developers decided to drop off the edge of the world.

Single Lennart of Failure?

Posted Mar 27, 2015 11:13 UTC (Fri) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274) [Link] (1 responses)

drag++

This might give you an idea of how many contributes to systemd, as well as the development pace:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel

I'm quite sure someone will be able to pick up the pieces if Lennart or Kay moves on to other projects.

Single Lennart of Failure?

Posted Mar 27, 2015 12:42 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

I did some analysis last year, using LWN's who-wrote script. The results are at http://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/2014/12/30/who-wrote-systemd/