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 <listudo@???> 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
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