If you wish to go against this decision (such as to support other init systems) you need to submit a proposal here so we can discuss it first. One could argue that having syslog-ng in [extra] supports other init systems in some small way. This does not come at anyone's expense
This may be a dead horse, but a few points. On 16/07/13 07:20 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: though. Unfortunately, netcfg would come at the expense of reputation because it is an Arch project. Supporting things deprecated by Arch itself sends a worse message than supporting things that were deprecated by others.
When the upstream maintainers of a project find it too messy and switch their development efforts to a cleaner fork, I find it quite naive to "re-release the messy original now, and see about fixing it later"... Again, I think the key here is that it was an Arch project. If for some reason a TU released community/thunar-thumbnailers "Predecessor to tumbler" most people wouldn't care. A project's own developers are the most likely people to think it is messy.
As for the whole "push first discuss later" thing, people shouldn't be afraid to take this approach. Maybe I misused it but "back in my day" there was an Arch dev who had wise words <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=355343#p355343> about this sort of thing.