On 06/07/14 16:35, Daniel Campbell wrote:
On 06/07/2014 01:19 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
Hello developers and users
The OpenRC project appears less active these days than it used to be.
There are many commits per month the last years, but the amount of
commits in 2014 per month has noticeably decreased to a crawl [1].
Alongside that, there appears to be around ~100 bugs open for OpenRC
[2] on Gentoo Bugzilla; some of which are left without a response.
This gives the impression that the development of it is slowing down.
Worth noting is that WilliamH recently had problems with his system, we
have since not seen him on IRC for almost a month; so, this can for a
part explain the last month of inactivity. Although the other months of
2014 and even 2013 to some extent show a decreasing trend.
The state and future of the OpenRC project could be of concern.
Therefore this call for general awareness; such that people that are
interested in this project can help, discuss measures to help the users
of these bugs as well as ensure the future of the OpenRC project.
Thank you in advance.
[1]: Short log of proj/openrc history, decreasing commits in 2014.
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=shortlog
[2]: Overview of bugs that involve OpenRC, most for the package itself.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc
Disclaimer: Just to be sure, I'm not affiliated with the OpenRC project.
As someone who's been in the process of trying to become a developer and
someone who believes there should be multiple init systems, I'd like to
step forward and offer my assistance. pchrist was originally my mentor,
but unforeseen circumstances came up and he's become mostly unable to
mentor me. We discussed this and agreed that maybe I should find another
developer to mentor me. I think working on OpenRC would be a great
learning experience for me and would be a great opportunity to
contribute to Gentoo.
If you or another developer would like to take up mentoring me so I can
achieve my goal of becoming a Gentoo developer and contribute, please
reply and cc pchrist@g.o so we can coordinate things. I still have my
ebuild test file floating around as well.
I hope this doesn't come off as spammy; I'd honestly like to contribute
and keep choice alive in the init system space.
Sincerely,
Daniel Campbell
Related to this, I'd like to take care of sys-apps/gentoo-functions in
WilliamH's absence. There's a couple of items to fix and I'd like to
get them done. Any objections?
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