Make history a separate document
Move the additional history information from Daniel Robbins' wiki page along with the history from README to a separate file, README.history. X-Gentoo-Bug: 513024 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/513024
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/
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They should be filed under the "Gentoo Hosted Projects" product and
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the "openrc" component.
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History - by Roy Marples
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I became a Gentoo/Linux developer in 2004 and wrote the modular network
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scripts for the Gentoo baselayout package. baselayout is a collection of
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bash scripts to bring up your computer and its services.
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Then towards the end of 2005 I found myself as the primary maintainer
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for baselayout.
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At the start of 2007, baselayout-2 is announced to the world, re-writing the
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core of baselayout in C and allowing POSIX sh init scripts instead of
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forcing the use of bash. By Mid 2007 I have re-written everything, including
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init scripts, and alpha and pre baselayout-2 snapshots where put into Gentoo.
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Towards the end of 2007 I retired as a Gentoo developer for reasons I won't
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go into here. baselayout-2 was still in the pre stage, and aside from the
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fbsd users, it was masked everywhere. However, I also desired to keep the
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baselayout-2 project alive, but outside of Gentoo and into other projects
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such as FreeBSD.
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As such, the Gentoo Council have allowed the creation of OpenRC under the
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2 clause BSD license, managed by me as an external project.
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This history of OpenRC was written by Daniel Robbins, Roy Marples, William
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Hubbs and others.
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The Gentoo modular init scripts were developed by Daniel Robbins for Gentoo
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Linux 1.0_rc6 during most of 2001 and released in September 2001. After their
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development, the dependency-based init script system was maintained by a
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number of senior developers, starting with Azarah (Martin Schlemmer), with
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migration to the new init system assisted by Woodchip (Donnie Davies) who
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converted all ebuild init scripts to work with the new system. As Grant
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Goodyear notes:
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"My recollection is that one of woodchip's more impressive early feats
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was the complete replacement of all of the init scripts in Portage
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for Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6. Through 1.0_rc5 Gentoo had used fairly
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standard rc scripts modified from Stampede Linux, but for 1.0_rc6 Daniel
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Robbins (drobbins) and Martin Schlemmer (azarah) had created a new
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dependency-based init script system that is still used today. Within a
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span of days Donny rewrote every single init script in the Portage tree
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and committed new masked packages to await the release of 1.0_rc6. Thanks to
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woodchip (and drobbins and azarah, of course) the
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transition to the new init scripts was nearly painless." [1]
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Roy Marples became a Gentoo/Linux developer in 2004 and wrote the modular
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network scripts for the Gentoo baselayout package. Towards the end of 2005,
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he became the primary maintainer for baselayout and the init scripts.
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At the start of 2007, He announced the ongoing development of
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baselayout-2, containing a rewritten core coded in C and allowing POSIX sh
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init scripts instead of forcing the use of bash. By mid 2007, He had
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re-implemented the Gentoo init script design created by Daniel Robbins,
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using an entirely new code base. Alpha and pre-release baselayout-2
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snapshots were added to Gentoo's Portage tree as an optional component.
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Toward the end of 2007, Roy retired as a Gentoo developer.
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Baselayout-2 was still in the pre stage, and aside from the gentoo-fbsd
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users, it was masked. However, He desired to keep the baselayout-2
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project moving forward as an independent project. The Gentoo Council
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permitted Him to release OpenRC under the 2-clause BSD license,
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managed by him as an external project.
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Around mid-2010, Roy decided to no longer maintain OpenRC. At this
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point, he transferred development back to Gentoo.
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William Hubbs, and several other Gentoo developers, started working on
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OpenRC around this point and brought OpenRC-0.8.x to Gentoo Linux's stable
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tree in 2011.
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In 2013 the OpenRC team became independent from Gentoo again and moved primary
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development to github.
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Daniel Robbins continues to maintain an independent, forked
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version of OpenRC for Funtoo Linux, which includes a Funtoo-specific network
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configuration system.
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040426-newsletter.xml
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