[systemd-devel] Process Manager?

[David Farning]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been looking over and testing the
systemd. Thanks for all the hard work and interesting ideas.

One issue that has come to mind is the quality and structure of the
documentation. The quality and clarity of the documentation can be as
important as the quality and clarity of the code.  As a relatively
young project the scope and implementation has shifted as new ideas
have been tested.

This has resulted in two areas of mis-communication:
1. What is systemd?
2. What is systemd... now?

One suggestion would be to refer to systemd as a 'process manager.'
Calling it a system manager seems a bit heavy handed... and results in
unnecessary pushback. Calling it an service manager understates the
scope of the project.

Something like 'systemd manages and optimizes the life cycle of all
processes from start up to shut down' might be a good one sentence
blurb.

I would would be happy to work on upstream wiki site to help with
communication.... But I want to be careful not to overstep.

Thanks