Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version
On 02/23/2012 05:54 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:29:37AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
>
>> I know the System V init system fairly well but I am new to both
>> Upstart and systemd. Obviously the two are similar insofar as they are
>> both able to supersede SysV init.
>>
> I'm mostly a newbie with both, too. However, apart from technical
> differences, I see the following as a serious issue: upstart requires
> contributors to sign the Canonical contributor agreement
> (http://www.canonical.com/contributors). That requirement would prevent
> at least some people (including myself) from being interested in
> working on upstart at all, unless paid.
>
>
Gosh, this is insane. I agree it would be a blocker. We can't ask
all the maintainers of providing daemon packages to sign it, and
there's no reasons why we should force them to.
Thomas
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