TC position statements on init systems (was: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.)

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Sure but perhaps you could save me the trouble to say if there is a
> general outline of the factors that the decision made was based upon
> perhaops somewhere in the ctte mailing list archive. Or a round up
> published before voting.

> Don't tell me it was just a vote with licensing issues being taken by
> many over real issues as some sites seem to be saying. Do voters give
> their primary reasons?

Several of us posted position statements.  Here are some links, although
both Ian's and mine were in multiple parts, and this only links to one of
them.  Someone else might have a more thorough collection.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00182.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00234.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00296.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00067.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00261.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00310.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00358.html

Thanks to /u/surrealize on Reddit for collecting the links in one place
where I could find them when searching to see if someone else had done my
work for me.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>