Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines While Poettering Lost Top Contributor Spot For 2019

[pkese]

Congrats, you've all been successfully trolled. Don't you feel silly?

No, I'm just honestly and sincerely trying to see how far you can push Poe's law.

[pkese]

Isn't it "taken apart" the moment you compile kernel from source? Depending on the choosen config larger or smaller portions get excluded during compile-time out of that 27.8MLoC and not baked into binary.

That's what they all say. Even SystemD zealots will say that their 1.3 million lines of code will compile into multiple binaries, but we all know it is just another monolith.
You just can't take it apart...
Just as you can't take out from Linux a wifi driver and use it in your own script. If you can't put it in a /rc.d script, it's not Unix.

[pkese]

According to people who preach the "Unix way", you should be able to take out your I/O driver and replace it at runtime.

...or at least write a filesystem driver in shell script.

[Britoid]

Isn't it "taken apart" the moment you compile kernel from source? Depending on the choosen config larger or smaller portions get excluded during compile-time out of that 27.8MLoC and not baked into binary.

According to people who preach the "Unix way", you should be able to take out your I/O driver and replace it at runtime.

[CommunityMember]

I'm guessing the reason is that they weren't major contributors

In larger projects such as this, while there is initially a fair amount of low hanging fruit, and new development that many can help with, after some point the code becomes sufficiently stable and complex enough that only those with the time, interest, and (often) employer backing, can meaningfully contribute, and some of the past contributors move on to different projects in their organization.

I do not think total number of contributors is necessarily a good metric to determine the health of a project (unless the number starts to drop precipitously), but it is certainly an easy one to produce.

[aht0]

Devuan got it all wrong. Systemd is not the main problem. The real culprit is Linux.
Linux kernel violates all UNIX principles (besides, it's not even UNIX).
It is a single monolithic repository with 27.8 million lines of code that can not be taken apart.

Isn't it "taken apart" the moment you compile kernel from source? Depending on the choosen config larger or smaller portions get excluded during compile-time out of that 27.8MLoC and not baked into binary.

It just needs only one to continue to exist.

[q2dg]

I would like Systemd to clean/close its more than thousand opened issues. That would be a great indicator.

[stormcrow]

All the various quotes replying to pkese

Congrats, you've all been successfully trolled. Don't you feel silly?

[yoshi314]

yes, we should split any project over 2000 lines of code into something smaller.