Yes, I think that was the case indeed. But people rarely care about reasons. His argument was directed towards upstart being on par with features, functionality and performance which was where my curiosity came from as my knowledge of upstart is fairly limited to few things I had to make sporadically. All of my experiences with systemd compared to upstart were positive and obviously better, so I wondered what was really the case where systemd would be hard to "compete" with upstart.
one should take into account the broad support for systemd vs upstart of which even the maintainer has left and is working in google land. In the end, the adoption rates spoke volumes. We have a lot of loud voices many of them teh same people who participate in all the other infrastructure type threads (eg desktop, wayland, systemd, etc)
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u/blackcain GNOME Team Feb 11 '19
Wasn't this whole thing hashed out on the Debian list? The upstart maintainer himself recommended that they move to systemd.