Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.
* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [131104 18:21]:
> Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com> writes:
>
> > Regarding the development force behind each project, I find the following
> > comparison at Ohloh very illustrative
>
> > https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=openrc&project_1=upstart&project_2=systemd
>
> This isn't really a fair comparison since systemd as a project contains
> considerably more subsystems than upstart or OpenRC do.
Actually I think this comparison contains valuable data points.
However, one shouldn't think of it as "more code is always better" -
in fact, I have often made the experience that too much code in
critical systems is a problem by itself. And as you pointed out, it
doesn't show the amount of development force correctly.
However, it shows two things: one is as you said that systemd contains
many more subsystems as the others (whether this is good or not is a
different question), the other is that code documentation seems to be
not as verbose as for upstart or OpenRC (in spite of the remarks I saw
earlier about how much documentation is there).
Andi
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