[Initng] Our experiences and InitNG future

[Ismael Luceno]

Alexandre SIMON escribió:
> 
>    We still believe that InitNG is today a really good replacement to 
> init. We follow the discussion in the mailing-list but we did not write 
> anything about changes, today we want to express our opinion :
> 
>    - concept of InitNG is a good one
> 
>    - ifiles syntax is simple and clear (and easy to use to write new 
> services and daemons)
> 

I hope you like the new service_file syntax.

>    - from the beginning we believed that the development of the core and 
> the rest (ifiles) must be separated. InitNG should concentrate on the 
> development of the core to propose new functionalities and to make it 
> more robust and stable. Why not having different teams : one for the 
> core, and other dedicated to distributions (debian, gentoo, ...) which 
> should write ifiles for these distributions ?

The problem is that we have not sufficient people to write scripts...

>    We are a little bite anxious and we are waiting for you about next 
> changes and for the future of InitNG. We don't want to drop out InitNG 
> but we hope that it'll continue in the same way of philosophy and 
> simplicity. Maybe it could be interesting to express some drafts about 
> the roadmap and the development.

The priority is to get rid of all the stuff that bloats the core; but
before that we will be releasing 0.6.10 :).

I'm working a bit on the service_file plugin. You should try it ;).

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