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diff --git a/README.history b/README.history deleted file mode 100644 index 2aeca1b3..00000000 --- a/README.history +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -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 |