Introduction
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Who is who?
Maintainer of the systemd package is Tollef Fog Heen (Mithrandir). Currently, it's discussed to get Michael Biebl (mbiebl) as co-maintainer.
Where to get help?
As systemd is a very young project (see [1]), we would appreciate to use the exisiting upstream infrastructure like mailing-list, IRC and read Lennart's blog, etc. Most people interested in systemd development and Debian-specific packaging are around on IRC: #systemd @ irc.freenode.net.
XXX: Upstream ML XXX: Lennart Poettering official blog
[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html