Project Summary
The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is a service manager that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any other init) with a both powerful and beautiful dependency-based system with a convenient interface. It is intended for use on GNU/Hurd, but it is supposed to work on every POSIX-like system where Guile is available. In particular, it is used as PID 1 by the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD).
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago
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