I love systemd both for it's actually functionality and the fact that it's almost like the flagship of a whole movement to make Linux more consistent and integrated and less of a pile o scripts.
But for some reason, the authors occasionally say something that feels completely out of place for the project. They fix important stuff eventually, but sometimes it gets confusing to watch them discuss it.
The "Invalid username runs a service as root" bug is a good example of something that they didn't seem to take seriously. But it's fixed now.
Also, PulseAudio. Pulse is good. It's not that great and was deployed before it's ready on some distros. The whole Pulse/Jack split that is only just now being fixed was annoying.
Some people might still judge Poettering based on 10yo bugs in Pulse rollout?
After a lot of recent events, I don't feel comfortable judging any open source project on the speed at which they fix bugs or the way they communicate about it. In open source there is no obligation for anyone to fix anything or communicate anything. To me it's a miracle when anything gets fixed at all. It feels like the community is still largely held together with duct tape and string.
Yeah, I just expect all software to be buggy. To be honest my main way of evaluating software is by Googling stuff like "X ate my data" or "X stopped working" and seeing how many major complaints people have, relatively to how many users there are.
I think the duct tape and string feeling comes from the obsession with smallness and modularity and people trying to make "Linux not be like windows".
Half the FOSS scene WANTS things to be taped together because their main thing is random tinkering.
But for some reason, the authors occasionally say something that feels completely out of place for the project. They fix important stuff eventually, but sometimes it gets confusing to watch them discuss it.
The "Invalid username runs a service as root" bug is a good example of something that they didn't seem to take seriously. But it's fixed now.
Also, PulseAudio. Pulse is good. It's not that great and was deployed before it's ready on some distros. The whole Pulse/Jack split that is only just now being fixed was annoying.
Some people might still judge Poettering based on 10yo bugs in Pulse rollout?