Bug#839114: RFS: [ITA] Hi, I'd like to adopt systemd-shim

[Ab B <teetylertoe@gmail.com>]

I've only looked at ubuntu but it seems like it's maintained at least
there.  It looks like mint 15 which dw says is the most popular distro
seems to use it.

And I think your predictions sound a little dire.  I'm no expert but
systemd does seem to be a very active project, which made me
concerned, but their external interfaces are fairly stable.  That
leads me to hope that maintaining a shim will require a lot less
effort than it could in a scenario like the one you suggest.

If upstream wants to pass the torch and someone takes it up that's
great.  If upstream just drops the project, then, well, that's a
problem for ~14k debian users and a lot more users from other distros.

One thing I'd like to do is reach out to sysd-shim maintainers in other distros.

But, in the end, sysd-shim seems to be a fairly recent release.  I'd
like to try to nurse it along for the next couple of months and see
how things go.

I personally don't have any plans right now to take over upstream, but
maybe that will change if I get more familiar with the code.