I found this on Soylent News:

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/01/0347232

In it, Subsentient, the original author of the Epoch Init System, asks
what can be dome to improve it.

Maybe we have some advice.

(It wouldn't surprise me if subsentient is on this mailing list; I don't
know.)

-- hendrik