On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:45:07 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
This is becoming a *government/politics* issue. Have we reached the point of "leaership by committee"? At some point, *someone* must be empowered to make rational decisions as the world will wait for no-one and we *will* be left in the lurch.
I *trust* those with knowledge to make intelligent decisions about my software platform the same as I trust my doctor/lawyer/financier/... When I find that the trust is not warranted, I *will* make changes.
I will say that from the "discussion" here that I feel (I have sufficient lack of expertise to do other than "feel") systemd is the future.
Well stated, Patrick. It's useful to discuss things to a point, but a decision needs to be made (regardless of the topic) and we need to move on to the next thing. Trying to come to a group consensus is a useful decision making process, but not something that should be employed for every single decision being made - the community can't micromanage every aspect of the project - that's part of the reason we elected a leadership team in the project. I trust them to make the right decisions for the project overall, even if I don't always agree with every individual small decision. If I didn't trust them, I wouldn't vote for them. Yes, I even trust the ones I didn't vote for, because they represent a majority in the community - and if the community starts going in a direction I can't agree with, then the best remedies I have are either to find a different community to put my efforts into, or to run for the board myself. With regards to the topic under discussion, maybe someone could (if it hasn't already been done) post a high-level comparison of the two components and identify what a migration path would look like to get from sysvinit to systemd. If we are going to switch, we need to provide a migration path for those who have created custom init scripts. Change is rarely easy. So if a change is to be made, the focus should be on making the change as easy/painless as possible, and we should highlight the advantages that the change brings. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org