| forking is a more civilised approach than bullying and threatening the author. Absolutely, in that almost anything is. :) But specifically, at this point I'd really welcome the anti-systemd ranters to just do some work that makes them feel happy, such as making a new distribution that has the exact init system they want. I suspect that Debian would love for them to do that as well. Debian is in general welcoming of downstream distros since the downstream distros—if given proper care and feeding—often feed back useful improvements to Debian. The problem here is that no one is actually doing a fork (yet). Some of the same loud, uninformed minority have just created a ranty web page that presents a skewed view of history and makes threats. It's just more of the same interminable mailing list snarks but in web page format. Trying to put out and support an entire distribution may serve to broaden their minds as to the delicate position the distribution is in with regard to integrating upstream work into a coherent whole. Sadly I'm not convinced that any enlightenment is going to be achieved because the people behind this web site admit that they haven't even got the time to become involved enough in Debian to have a vote, so I don't know where they're going to find the time to launch a non-toy distribution. |