Dear Devuan Dev's

There has been a request we've received as shown below, and as yet it
hasn't been responded too. I've taken it on myself to respond today to
encourage them and also offer to provide support services and packaging
etc as a commercial arrangement if they need that. I've forwarded my
response to them to this list already.

This raises the issue with regards to providing a enterprise/commercial
support service for Devuan.

I can and will provide services specific to Devuan, and would like to
get a Devuan team endorsement to do so.

In turn would like to share that commercial work with other committed
Devuan developers who are interested in partnering. My intention is not
to corner the market on Devuan development, but instead to grow the
opportunities. If other companies spring up that contribute to Devuan
as part of providing commercial support to Devuan, then they also should
be recognised in that capacity too.

I would like to see there being a plethora of companies providing
commercial and enterprise support offerings for Devuan in the future and
don't want it to ever be a single point of failure.

Cheers,
Daniel




On 6 August 2018 17:18:38 CEST, freedom@??? wrote:
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Maintenance and Development of new Devuan Releases
> Date: 2018-08-06 05:42
> From: Martin Seener <martin.seener@???>
> To: "freedom@???" <freedom@???>
>
> Hello dear Devuan Developers,
>
> We have a decision to be made and wanted to ask something that should
> not be public, so I hope this is the right way.
>
> I’am the leading system administrator of Barzahlen, a Berlin-based
> Fintech company.
>
> We run some 40 to 50 servers in our datacenter and on external servers
> with Debian, starting with Squeeze in 2012, and skipped directly to
> Jessie 2 years ago and are now on our way to Stretch.
>
> But I saw Devuan already years ago and really liked the idea because I
> don’t like systemd for various reasons (mostly the same you have).
>
> Now we have to decide internally which OS our servers for our main
> production server fleet should run on. Debian Stretch or Devuan Ascii.
> I
> like Ascii, a colleague likes Stretch. In the end I can decide but I
> also have some doubt, which is why I write you.
>
> Mainly I need to know how “safe” it is to switch to Devuan from a
> maintenance perspective. I know, that Buster is already in development
> and Devuan is also LTS supported. Can we be sure, that Devuan will
> still
> be actively maintained in 5 or 10 years, so we don’t have to switch to
> Debian again in 2 or 3 years?
>
> We also use various packages that rely on systemd within Debian. Will
> we
> have issues when switching?
>
> Just as an example, I patched InfluxDB and Telegraf to support Debian
> with SysVinit, because they only checked if systemctl is there instead
> of checking which init system is currently running. But I don’t have
> the time to fix all the packages we use.
>
> I’d like to hear back from you, because I’m a huge fan of what
> you’re doing and I hope we can do the switch for our company.
>
> Cheers, Martin
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> MARTIN SEENER
> Leiter Systemadministration / stellv. CTO
>
> BARZAHLEN.DE
>
> Cash Payment Solutions GmbH
> Wallstraße 14a
> 10179 Berlin
> Deutschland
>
> Tel.: +49 30 346 46 16-13
> Mobil: +49 151 27530082
> E-Mail: martin.seener@???
>
> www.barzahlen.de [1]
>
> Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg - HRB 136749 B
> Geschäftsführung: Achim Bönsch, Sebastian Seifert, Andreas Veller
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> Links:
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> [1] https://www.barzahlen.de/

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