Dear List, I am Qingyao Sun, a student looking forward to participating in a GSoC project for NetBSD this year. One project I am interested in is "Port launchd" http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/launchd-port/. I have reached out to Christos Zoulas, the prospective mentor of that project, but he said that replacing init/rc with launchd could be a little controversial, and suggested me ask your opinions on the list.
Basically, I would like to make it easier to control general daemons on NetBSD. I looked at previous efforts in this aspect, and noticed that a GSoC project from last year enhanced inetd with the capability to babysit general daemons https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/projects/LDY5asp0z, so I am not sure if launchd is still needed. That being said, I don't think the inetd enhancement has been merged yet. Another project worth mentioning is relaunchd https://github.com/mheily/relaunchd, which is a re-implementation of launchd. Should we simply merge that into NetBSD? Please let me know your thoughts! Bests, Qingyao
