Re: Proposal for ConsoleKit distributor-list announcement

[Lennart Poettering <lennart poettering net>]

On Thu, 26.01.12 09:47, Olav Vitters (ovitters gmail com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:34:43PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > Dear release team dudes and Mr.Lennart,
> 
> Whoah, great feedback! Seems like pretty much everything is arranged.
> Still, I'd like to send an announcement.. because although it seems like
> everyone is informed already, best to still send a general announcement.
> 
> Rewritten it as follows. Purely about ConsoleKit, not the daemons. It
> seems like keeping ConsoleKit code is best for now, so written with that
> assumption in mind.
> 
> I've added a hint that they should just use systemd.. might result in
> some revolt.. but in my personal opinion distributions should take that
> into account. No systemd while lots @ upstream use systemd --> bugs.
> 
> Btw: Maybe Canonical will maintain the Solaris stuff. I don't care. I
> prefer the warning doesn't assume that.
> 
> > ====================================
> 
> Subject: Impact of ConsoleKit deprecation
> 
> The ConsoleKit project at freedesktop.org has been deprecated. Please
> read this email if your distribution/OS plans to continue to rely on
> ConsoleKit.
> 
> ConsoleKit currently runs under:
>  - Solaris 11+
>  - FreeBSD
>  - Linux
> 
> Similar functionality is provided by systemd; however this is only
> available on Linux. Furthermore, not all distributions will use
> it. The

Please replace "will use it" with "are using it right now".

I think there's a good chance Ubuntu will jump on the systemd train
after their LTS release which they are currently working on.

Otherwise looks good. Thanks for putting this together.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.