[systemd-devel] Moving systemd-bootchart to a standalone repository

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 09:17:51AM -0800, Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/17/2016 04:51 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
> >> [I've put all people in Cc who have had more than one commit related to
> >> systemd-bootchart in the past]
> >>
> >> As part of our spring cleaning, we've been thinking about giving
> >> systemd-bootchart a new home, in a new repository of its own. I've been
> >> working on this and put the result here:
> >
> > What's the reason for splitting it out into it's own repository as what's
> > the criteria you used to determine that which may or may not be applicable
> > to other bits of systemd?+
> 
> When this code was merged into systemd originally it was by itself
> already a fairly useful tool, and the potential to benefit systemd as
> a project was enormous. That potential has subsided in the last two
> years significantly as the community pushing systemd has (I think)
> learned to be critical about additions to the code and the impact. As
> such the beneficial component of synergy has faded a bit, and it may
> actually hinder other projects from adopting systemd-bootchart.
> 
> Splitting it out increases that potential and will allow
> systemd-bootchart to evolve out of cycle again, and look a bit over
> the fence. I've reviewed most of the changes to it, and noticed a bit
> of a drop of risky commits, and those are the ones that are going to
> be needed for this project to make it a useful tool in the future.
> 
> So, I think this is a great move, one that certainly will motivate me
> to engage more deeply again :)
Hi Auke,

what kind of big changes would you have in mind?
Just the fact of being in one repo with systemd should not have
much effect on changes to bootchart which is mostly standalone...

Zbyszek