Thanks for the feedback Scott! Appreciate you giving it a read. I know there's a lot there.
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:11 -0700, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, James Hunt <james.h...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > > Clint and I have been hard at work on an "Upstart Cookbook". > Although it > > is "early days", we wanted to let you all know we're working on this > > project. Our (still *very* draft!) efforts can be viewed here: > > > Nice work, some comments on the copy of 1-4 below: > > Although Upstart is used on on a number of different Operating > Systems (including Ubuntu, Google's Chromium OS and Google's > Chrome OS), the Ubuntu version is considered the "reference > implementation". This is primarily due to the fact that > Upstart was written specifically for Ubuntu (although this > does not mean that it cannot run on any other Linux-based > system). > > > I'd disagree with this. Reference implementation always implies that > other implementations should copy it as much as possible, and Ubuntu > is no way that. As long as Ubuntu still uses a hybrid of Sys V and > Upstart jobs, it can never be a reference implementation. > > > It may be that you mean what the document corresponds to, in which > case use a different term ;-) Good point. I would have to agree that the use of the term "reference implementation" is incorrect. I don't know of a term that best describes what it is succinctly. How about "The most complete implementation of the intended use of Upstart." ? > A notification sent by Upstart to all interested parties > (either jobs or other events). They can be thought of as > "signals". Events are emitted(created and then broadcast) to > the entire Upstart system. > > Events can be more than just signals, I've made a point of documenting > this recently, so this just confuses the issue. > * Events are like Signals > * Events are like Methods > * Events are like Hooks > Scott I went ahead and made this change, which should show up on the website soon: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-documenters/upstart-cookbook/trunk/revision/30 As I'm sure there will be a lot of minor corrections that don't warrant discussion here, we've configured a bug tracker here for the cookbook: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart-cookbook -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
