[systemd-devel] Process Manager?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 02.03.14 19:48, David Farning (dfarning at gmail.com) wrote:

> 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.

Well, the name of the project is "systemd", which means that it manages
the "system" is already baked into its very name. It's what it is...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat