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diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..03dde1df --- /dev/null +++ b/HISTORY.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +# OpenRC History + +This history of OpenRC was written by Daniel Robbins, Roy Marples, William +Hubbs and others. + +The Gentoo modular init scripts were developed by Daniel Robbins for Gentoo +Linux 1.0_rc6 during most of 2001 and released in September 2001. After their +development, the dependency-based init script system was maintained by a +number of senior developers, starting with Azarah (Martin Schlemmer), with +migration to the new init system assisted by Woodchip (Donnie Davies) who +converted all ebuild init scripts to work with the new system. As Grant +Goodyear notes: + +"My recollection is that one of woodchip's more impressive early feats +was the complete replacement of all of the init scripts in Portage +for Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6. Through 1.0_rc5 Gentoo had used fairly +standard rc scripts modified from Stampede Linux, but for 1.0_rc6 Daniel +Robbins (drobbins) and Martin Schlemmer (azarah) had created a new +dependency-based init script system that is still used today. Within a +span of days Donny rewrote every single init script in the Portage tree +and committed new masked packages to await the release of 1.0_rc6. Thanks to +woodchip (and drobbins and azarah, of course) the +transition to the new init scripts was nearly painless." [1] + +Roy Marples became a Gentoo/Linux developer in 2004 and wrote the modular +network scripts for the Gentoo baselayout package. Towards the end of 2005, +he became the primary maintainer for baselayout and the init scripts. + +At the start of 2007, He announced the ongoing development of +baselayout-2, containing a rewritten core coded in C and allowing POSIX sh +init scripts instead of forcing the use of bash. By mid 2007, He had +re-implemented the Gentoo init script design created by Daniel Robbins, +using an entirely new code base. Alpha and pre-release baselayout-2 +snapshots were added to Gentoo's Portage tree as an optional component. + +Toward the end of 2007, Roy retired as a Gentoo developer. +Baselayout-2 was still in the pre stage, and aside from the gentoo-fbsd +users, it was masked. However, He desired to keep the baselayout-2 +project moving forward as an independent project. The Gentoo Council +permitted Him to release OpenRC under the 2-clause BSD license, +managed by him as an external project. + +Around mid-2010, Roy decided to no longer maintain OpenRC. At this +point, he transferred development back to Gentoo. + +William Hubbs, and several other Gentoo developers, started working on +OpenRC around this point and brought OpenRC-0.8.x to Gentoo Linux's stable +tree in 2011. + +In 2013 the OpenRC team became independent from Gentoo again and moved primary +development to github. + +Daniel Robbins continues to maintain an independent, forked +version of OpenRC for Funtoo Linux, which includes a Funtoo-specific network +configuration system. + +[1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040426-newsletter.xml |