On 2024-05-18 23:56, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote:
> On 5/18/24 21:47, golinux via Dng wrote:
>> On 2024-05-18 12:29, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote:
>>>
>>> In some ways the campaign is still ongoing because I read articles
>>> rather frequently which miscategorize systemd as an init system.
>>> Perhaps that is something which can be addressed as a community by
>>> calling out attempts to frame systemd as an init system.  If people
>>> mistake it for an init system, there is less incentive to care and
>>> that
>>> makes our community's task harder.  As more people see it for what it
>>> is, then there may be more hands to help clean.
>>>
>>> /Lars
>>>
>>
>> In case you missed it . . .
>>
>> The Linux Pro Magazine article about Devuan from June 2022 addressed
>> many of the "forgotten" points mentioned above. It was quite a coup
>> that
>> they linked to archival resources that I thought would never see the
>> light of day on such a platform! It was very gratifying to know that
>> someone with a megaphone was paying attention. Details and links here:
>>
>> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5093
>>
>> Please do share . . .
>
> Thanks! It's good to see that one again. Bruce does make a mistake in
> asserting that systemd was chosen in Debian by popular vote:
>
> "But here's the thing and there's just no getting around
> it: the 312s chose SHOULD NOT as their first choice. They
> pointedly and explicitly say that S/GIC is a bad idea, their
> only quibble is over Just How Bad."
>

Correction . . . That was not Bruce's error but a quote from Dasein's
post "Combatting revisionist history" on the Debian forum! A link to
that post was published in the article.

> ­—
> https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=576562#p576502
>
> Steve mentioned a little while ago about Don Armstrong single handedly
> choosing it over the more popular options in that TC vote. That tidbit
> does not get the attention it deserves.
>

I am surprised that dasein didn't make that important point a headline!!
Perhaps it is buried later in that post and Bruce didn't read that far.

> Also from the same debian.net account as above:
>
> "Combatting revisionist history"
> https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=120652
>
> /Lars
>