Hi Udo, I'm not part of the VUA, and what I'm about to say is by no means comprehensive or official.
I'd say things are looking up for Devuan: * The Devuan package repository is available at http://apt.devuan.org/devuan. I think the current plan is to mirror Debian's repositories and copy in Devuan's systemd-free variants (i.e. for util-linux, dbus, etc.). * There's an i386 Vagrant image released for pre-alpha testing (see https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/try-devuan-on-vagrant). * There's a Devuan SDK available that lets you build Devuan installer ISOs in a fairly straight-forward manner, as well as manage builds of Devuan-specific packages. Also, I think a lot of the development conversation has moved to IRC. The logs are at https://botbot.me/freenode/devuan/ There are also some interesting projects aimed at building long-term replacements for systemd components: * LoginKit (replaces systemd-logind). https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/loginkit * libsysdev (replaces libudev). https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev * vdev (replaces udevd). https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev (DISCLAIMER: I'm the author) Insofar as what needs doing, there's a pre-alpha ISO floating around (Valentine pre-alpha), and the Vagrant image could always use more testing and bug reports. There's also a list of infrastructure to-dos here: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/todo/issues. Hope this helps, -Jude On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Udo Rader <list...@bestsolution.at> wrote: > Hi, > > short preface: the idea of systemd running on our ~100 servers causes me > more than serious headache and so, like many others, I am interested in > having a viable alternative to this madness. > > Unfortunately I was not very successful finding out how Devuan is doing > - despite having done my homework digging both through the website and > the ML archives. The best I came up with is the announcement of a spring > (alpha?) release. > > I am not asking the evil "when will it be done" question, instead I am > asking how I could possibly help to get things going :) > > You could very likely call me a Linux veteran with almost 20 years > playing the game and in a (now very remote) past I even did some > packaging for Mandriva. For the past 10 years almost every server we > have been provisioning is based on Debian and so I know that beast quite > well, but I have never been involved with Debian as an organization. > > My daily job is devops oriented, with the dev side focusing mostly on > Java and the ops side planning and partially maintaining our > infrastructure. > > So what are the areas that require additional help? > > Regards > > Udo > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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