Andrei Popescu:
Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the
> evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being > replaced by systemd everywhere. Tanstaafl:
And why was OPenRC not a contender?
Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, contrary to what M. Popescu dismissively stated. Several members of the technical committee took it and tried to use it themselves, just as they did the other systems; and it was included on the formal ballots and in the votes. Contrastingly, the people who were propounding OpenRC at the time provided a good example of how NOT to go about doing so. Their several mistakes are worth learning from.