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