Re: Invite to join the Release Team

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Clint Adams]
> Open bugs[10] still remain in the way of the "Boot
> Performance" release goal.

This is far from the truth.  The open BTS reports listed only relates
to one small part of this release goal - the dependency based boot
sequencing.  Work on improving boot speed have almost stalled, we lack
a new bootchart with better resolution and higher detail (draft based
on bootchart2 available outside the archive), and there is no
concentrated work on identifying slow starting processes to improve
the boot speed.  There is some work being done to make it possible to
enable concurrent booting, by following up init.d scripts with
incomplete and inaccurate dependency information, and these are the
BTS reports you see in [10].

We also do daily archive wide consistency check of the boot
dependencies.  The results are available from
<URL: http://lintian.debian.org/~pere/ >.  See also
<URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot > for
information about this sub-goal. :)

If you want to help out, please join us on #pkg-sysvinit
(irc.debian.org) and the initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
mailing list. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen