This is an impressive project especially considering there are only 4 contributors. In my opinion this should have existed prior to systemd as it is more modular and very much optional "The Suite may run either as an init system or as an auxiliary service management system under another init system." This would have been a much better direction to go on Redhat in my opinion. I might still be using CentOS or one of the forks had systemd gone this direction. Just a personal preference of course but this does not feel forced and does not appear to commandeer functionality that should not be in the init process. It's also interesting to see it implemented in Alpine Linux already though I do not see it in the edge repo guess I have to build it. I use Alpine for all my VM and bare metal servers. This may be worth tinkering with. After this is extensively battle hardened I would like to see this as an installation option in Alpine, perhaps by setting a variable much like other installation options. There are also some interesting notes in Myths and Truths [1]

I hope they are still actively developing this. last 5 commit dates which appear low for an alpha. Maybe we need to contribute to this or raise funding.

    Date:   Fri Aug 16 18:55:06 2024 +0100
    Date:   Mon Aug 12 22:33:49 2024 +0200
    Date:   Tue Feb 1 12:31:57 2022 +0000
    Date:   Tue Feb 1 12:31:42 2022 +0000
    Date:   Thu Dec 2 18:43:39 2021 +0000

The part I'm particularly impressed with is what they determined was better to leave out ( https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/wiki/Dropped-components ), especially the crypto and DNS portions which they quite reasonably determined they were insufficiently skilled to maintain (and modules that could be catastrophically damaging if you got them wrong). That's simply ample prudence and speaks well of the project.

> I hope they are still actively developing this. last 5 commit dates which appear low for an alpha. Maybe we need to contribute to this or raise funding.

This well-trending HN story is a great boost, I'm sure. There is clearly an interest.