On May 4, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Philip Brown wrote: > The good news is, I hope to have a new type/provider combo to submit to the > puppet source next week :) Seems like I'm making good progress. > > The bad news is, I now need to pick a name that's going to be good for the > long haul, before I submit it :) So I'm asking here for suggestions. > > I'm writing this for what is,as far as I know, a somewhat OS specific feature > at the moment. However, perhaps there are vaguely similar features in other > OS's I'm not familiar with. > Hmm. In some ways, I suppose it's similar to "windows registry". Very > similar, really. > > But at any rate, the particular itch I'm scratching, is I'm writing a module > to support what I'd call solaris "system properties", or more SMF properties. > > Any SMF service, svc:/system/whatever/blah, can have associated > "properties" registered along with it.There are some generic properties, and > also some service specific properties. > For example, most active services tend to have a property named > "start/timeout_seconds". > > It is thus useful to have support, not to install a "new" service, but to > finetune existing, already installed system services, with these properties. > > I thought that I'd use a somewhat portable name, type "sysprop". > "systemproperties" seems a bit unwieldy to me, but I dunno. What do you guys > think? > (FYI, the solaris manpages describe these properties as, > "properties in the service configuration repository")
First, is there a reason not to just maintain this as a module on the forge? We're trying to keep the builtin types to the minimum that most people will use, and are even doing things like moving the Nagios types to a module, rather than shipping them in core. Regardless, though, I agree the name is important. Most people would agree I'm not the best person to give advice on names, but I'd go with something like svcproperties. -- Luke Kanies | http://about.me/lak | http://puppetlabs.com/ | +1-615-594-8199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
