Here's to sunnier days

Posted Nov 19, 2014 15:55 UTC (Wed) by martin.langhoff (subscriber, #61417)
In reply to: A request by corbet
Parent article: Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

Thanks Ian and everyone. My hope is that this divisive topic is put behind, systemd improved (and perhaps eventually replaced/refactored) for the betterment of the platform.

And perhaps all the parties involved come back to the TC or other leadership positions strong but... more patient :-)

We will need them; systemd won't be the last controversial moment in Linux...

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Here's to sunnier days

Posted Nov 19, 2014 17:23 UTC (Wed) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]

I'd just like to thank Tollef Fog Heen, Russ Allbery, Colin Watson, and Ian Jackson, and Joey Hess for their tireless effort, even in those cases where I disagreed with their decisions. I have never met any of them but I greatly respect their efforts to provide guidance for the improvement of the Universal Operating System's architecture. Debian is generally the better for their struggles to do the right thing, and that will particularly be seen in the long run.

I also am quite happy with the improved functionality of Jessie, especially the rapid boot time. I agree with the Technical Committee that systemd was the best choice in a difficult field and acknowledge their valid concerns about both a certain arrogance of upstream and the porting issues.

That said, systemd is free software. It does not have the problematic license assignments of upstart, and is more technically mature. It is one of Debian's great successes in the past that they have built tools to split unwieldy master codebases into modular packages -- with some cleverness on Debian's part and a willingness to collaborate on the part of the systemd team, I hope that great things can happen.