Numbered Release

[thypon]

Hi, i'm a package mantainer of voidlinux http://www.voidlinux.eu/; right now we are using eudev/runit as a systemd replacement. I'd like to evaluate vdev for our distribution.

A numbered release could help in packaging it.

[jcnelson]

Hi thypon,

Thank you for your interest in vdev! We're planning on creating numbered release branches. There are a few things to do still before I'm comfortable creating the first such branch, but once we're ready, I'll do so for vdev and its (optional) dependencies libpstat and fskit.

We are close to starting the 0.1 branch--hotplugging and device enumeration works, and it is already possible to boot to X with vdevd and libudev-compat replacing udev and libudev. But to help give a rough idea of when to expect 0.1, I went through and opened a few known issues that should be addressed first:

• port fskit to C (in progress--should be done this week).
• support for RAID.
• support for Ceph.
• MTP symlinks.
• other missing but critical udev-generated metadata and symlinks (TBD).

Please feel free to open any additional issues and feature requests as needed, especially regarding missing /dev files and metadata and missing or invalid hotplug events. You may find the how-to-test.md document useful for evaluating vdev, as well as the conversation in issue #32 for doing early-boot testing.

Thanks, Jude