On 02/11/13 04:11, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think the right way to put this is that systemd has significant > development resources behind it and is working in fairly close cooperation > with both kernel developers and GNOME developers to make available new > kernel functionality and to provide implementations of various other > interfaces. Multiple implementations are good, but there's potentially an > ongoing stream of development to keep up with, and (putting aside > arguments about coupling and appropriate ways to integrate that > functionality) I believe there is a general agreement that functionality > is desirable and will be used by other software that Debian wants to > provide. > > So, one question is whether anyone outside of Canonical is in a position > to help with the heavy development (as opposed to the occasional patch). > Red Hat is clearly committed to systemd, and there's some convergence > towards it among other RPM-based distributions, so long-term resources for > systemd don't seem to be in doubt. Canonical is a smaller company, and > does not always have the resources to keep projects for which it is the > sole upstream vibrant and growing, even when it seems strongly committed > to them (c.f. bzr).
Regarding the development force behind each project, I find the following comparison at Ohloh very illustrative https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=openrc&project_1=upstart&project_2=systemd
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