> But doesn't it still need to be supported for 5 more years because of 14.04 LTS?
Sure it does. I'm not familiar with the details, but I believe that Upstart development was primarily one person prior to the decision to switch to systemd. Supporting existing stable releases surely requires far less. So it's hardly an onerous burden.
There is also the question of supporting packages that integrate with Upstart (eg. via Upstart init script), so this involves some more work as we'll be supporting packages that use Upstart (in 14.04) as well as systemd (from Vivid, if we complete the switch this cycle).
But I still don't think it's so much work as to be considered a contributing factor in "spreading themselves so thin". It's not even close.
> In addition, it's still the default for ChromeOS and not much interest has been expressed in a switch. Anything new on that frontier?
No idea, sorry. Not my department. I know that Upstart is pretty solid though, with particularly high quality code and comprehensive test coverage. There aren't any major feature gaps either, apart from extra new stuff that you may or may not want. So I don't see much of a problem in continuing to use it for a while yet. I expect it to bitrot slower than an average project.
Sure it does. I'm not familiar with the details, but I believe that Upstart development was primarily one person prior to the decision to switch to systemd. Supporting existing stable releases surely requires far less. So it's hardly an onerous burden.
There is also the question of supporting packages that integrate with Upstart (eg. via Upstart init script), so this involves some more work as we'll be supporting packages that use Upstart (in 14.04) as well as systemd (from Vivid, if we complete the switch this cycle).
But I still don't think it's so much work as to be considered a contributing factor in "spreading themselves so thin". It's not even close.
> In addition, it's still the default for ChromeOS and not much interest has been expressed in a switch. Anything new on that frontier?
No idea, sorry. Not my department. I know that Upstart is pretty solid though, with particularly high quality code and comprehensive test coverage. There aren't any major feature gaps either, apart from extra new stuff that you may or may not want. So I don't see much of a problem in continuing to use it for a while yet. I expect it to bitrot slower than an average project.