>It has surprised me that the initial discussion on the Debian mailing list somehow managed to only address SysVinit, Upstart and systemd. Nobody took a serious

>It has surprised me that the initial discussion on the Debian mailing list somehow managed to only address SysVinit, Upstart and systemd. Nobody took a serious look at runit or s6. Was s6 even mature at the time? Runit has no reliable dependency or ordering features, so it is a poor substitute for startpar, upstart, or systemd. OpenRC should have been considered, but at the time it had no supervision features. Which was something that people really wanted from a service manager and one of the primary reasons for moving away from sysvinit/startpar.