Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

I am a casual Debian user and a person who has 50 years in IT. My first comment is that the direction that other Linux distributions are taking is not the system V direction. I am not a Linux Internals person, but there are many who are. The consensus is that systemd is better and the right approach for now and the future. I realize that the author of this email to which I am responding is upset. But, what should be done? Do a fork of Debian and that fork remains with Sys V?

In my career, changes that I did not agree with occurred, and I was very upset. Two years later, I saw that the new way was as good as the old way. And today, the old way is history.

Relax, take a deep breath, and setup a comparison matrix. You know, column 1 is sys V, and column 2 is SystemD. Look at throughput, support population, maintenance, impact of multi-processors, and whatever criteria you can think of, and then give us something to review and to use to confirm or deny that the move is a good decision.

By the way, the four you mention most certainly confided in others before recognizing that the Linux world is going forward with systemd. They looked at support effort and costs, and reverse engineering.

Regards

Leslie

Mr. Leslie Satenstein

SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM.

From: "disbandtechctte@tfwno.gf" <disbandtechctte@tfwno.gf>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
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Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2014 4:15 PM
Subject: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

FOUR people made a decision that would once have required
thousands of votes. FOUR votes overrideds the decision
debian took before the tech-ctte dictatorship to standardize
on system V init rather than bsd style init scripts

The tech-ctte was created to arbitrate and decide disputes
between package maintainers. It was not created to decide
fundamental issues about the OS. Some members have used it
in bad faith to push through a decision

This is a bad-faith aquisition of power here that has occured.
The debian tech-ctte should be disbanded for that reason

*The tech-ctte is stacked not with volunteer debian devs, but
by people on the payroll of redhat and canonical of ubuntu fame,
that's why there was a tie-vote, they voted their paycheques

*The monetary situation with the tech-ctte members raises a strong
presumption of self-dealing.

*The way they voted party lines confirms it nearly.

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