I was thinking about which OS to support with cinit next. I think that FreeBSD and Ubuntu are very interesting to support with cinit now.

So I decided to write migration scripts for Ubuntus upstart for the next version of cinit.

Because it's a lot of work to migrate an existing init system, I'm searching for friendly hackers, who help me to get the migration script up and running:

The idea is to

• analyse current services
• create new cinit services
• clue everything together and bootup much faster

The script cinit-conf.migrate.upstart.ubuntu.jaunty already contains a minimalistic analysis of Ubuntus upstart. What needs to be done is

• to read through the listed scripts inside cinit-conf.migrate.upstart.ubuntu.jaunty
• and to create scripts to create new services in cinit/bin

So if you want to help to support Ubuntu with cinit, you could

• analyse one init-script
• and create the service creators (like cinit-conf.svc.mount.tmpfs.linux.ubuntu)

If you are interested, please join the cinit mailinglist and let us know, on which script you hack.