I also wonder that. I've read good things about OpenRC, but I always thought of the lack of runlevels as a defining feature of BSD, so color me a little sad to see this go into a BSD operating system.

Nosh seems to progress nicely - it just doesn't get a lot of public attention. If you follow the FreeBSD or debian mailing-lists you will find a new email announcement about releases every 3-4 weeks.

Init still seems to be undecided in FreeBSD land; my hope is that FreeBSD 11 or 12 at least makes a decision about considering to switch (or not).

Latest freebsd quarterly update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.h...

Latest release notes (jan 14th, 2017): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html

Version 1.32 of nosh is on its way. Version 1.31 went out a week or so ago.

I have pointed out to Ken Moore that they can marry s6 with OpenRC. I've also offered my experience with things like getting PCDM running under proper service mangement, which is one of the many things that I have already done. I've also already been through all of the fun with the interdependencies between devd and the Mewburn rc system, and can offer experience of that, too. I have had per-user service managers running on TrueOS/PC-BSD for over a year, as well, and already have the per-user Desktop Bus stuff that is coming down the pipeline from the Desktop Bus people.

* http://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/msg...

I've had zero response from the TrueOS people so far. I don't know whether Laurent Bercot has heard anything.

Nosh is still in active development; I see release announcements to the Debian Users list every month or two. It looks like the core is good and lots of conversion infrastructure is being put into place around it.

What about s6?