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GNU dmd

GNU dmd is a "Daemon managing Daemons" (or "Daemons-managing Daemon"?), i.e. a service manager that 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 has been tested on GNU/Linux, in the GNU system distribution.

Downloading dmd

dmd in its early development stages. It can be found on the GNU ftp server for alpha releases: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ (via HTTP) and ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ (via FTP).

Documentation

Documentation for dmd is available on-line, as is documentation for most GNU software. You may also find more information about dmd by running info dmd.

Mailing lists

The guix-devel mailing list is used to discuss most aspects of dmd, including development and enhancement requests.

Guix-commits receives notifications of commits to the version control repository.

Announcements about dmd and most other GNU software are made on info-gnu (archive).

Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general security mailing list for advice.

Getting involved

Development of dmd, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU. If you'd like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the discussion mailing list (see above).

Test releases
Trying the latest test release (when available) is always appreciated. Test releases of dmd can be found at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ (via HTTP) and ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ (via FTP).
Development

Anonymous checkout: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/dmd.git

You can also browse the Git repository with your web browser: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmd.git

For additional information, please see the dmd project page at savannah.gnu.org.

Road map

A tentative road map was put up in November 2013. Please join the mailing list for discussion.

Maintainer
dmd is currently being maintained by Ludovic Courtès. Please use the mailing lists for contact.

Licensing

dmd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

GPL version 3

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