Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:41 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote: since the current justification for having stable releases at all is 'to handle upgrade cases we can't handle with yum' What about installation from media such as DVD for users who cannot reasonably access more than a gigabyte of

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 03:41 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: The decision to reject this feature certainly was a lesson in killing momentum which we will never reach again. JBG Ps. Yes I'm pissed and I have every right to be I eventually will get over it and so will you

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/15/2010 11:24 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: There is one big difference though. Upstart does work and for a naive user this detail that /sbin/upstart handles sysvinit job is not really visible. In the case of systemd this works mostly. Definitely much better now than when it showed up

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/15 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com:  On 09/15/2010 11:24 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: There is one big difference though.  Upstart does work and for a naive user this detail that /sbin/upstart handles sysvinit job is not really visible.  In the case of systemd this works mostly.

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Hughes
2010/9/15 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: The decision to reject this feature certainly was a lesson in killing momentum which we will never reach again. This is how I also feel. By trying to make Fedora shiny, polished and super-cautious against breaking things we're just creating

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/15 Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com: 2010/9/15 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: The decision to reject this feature certainly was a lesson in killing momentum which we will never reach again. This is how I also feel. By trying to make Fedora shiny, polished and

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 10:27 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: * Fedora documentation, especially the longer guides to be updated to cover systemd extensively Please point me to a similar document written for Upstart. It doesn't really need one, because it behaves exactly as SysV init did.

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:36 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: 2010/9/15 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: The decision to reject this feature certainly was a lesson in killing momentum which we will never reach again. This is how I also feel. By trying to make Fedora shiny, polished and

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread drago01
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 10:27 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: * system-config-services needs to work with systemd native units Does it work with native Upstart jobs? Again, doesn't matter; we never used any by

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:09 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 10:27 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: * system-config-services needs to work with systemd native units Does it work with native Upstart

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread drago01
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:09 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 10:27 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: * system-config-services

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Micha³ Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com said: Please point me to a similar document written for Upstart. Please stop comparing everything to what was done for Upstart. That was done in a different set of circumstances, and for almost everything, Upstart was done in a backwards

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com said: * since s-c-services uses chkconfig, chkconfig needs to be hooked up to systemctl IMHO this just needs to be the common-use cases for chkconfig (on, off, --list). The --add, --del, --level, and other options are not things that most

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 06:46 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: I do wish, though, Bill, that FESCo could have come through with this decision sooner; on a project basis it really does cut things rather fine for rolling RC1, and on a personal basis I could have not bothered with about seven hours

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:36 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: 2010/9/15 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: The decision to reject this feature certainly was a lesson in killing momentum which we will never reach again. This is how I also feel. By trying to make Fedora shiny, polished and

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Jan Wildeboer
On 09/15/2010 03:35 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: I think we all realize that the timing was exceedingly bad on this. I think we should try to distill some lessons from this for how we approach 'invasive' features in the future. If the vore was as close as it was in this case, it begs the

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:53:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Since, I am a co-maintainer of systemd and watching bugs flow through, I think we need a more concrete list of what is missing/needs to be fixed for this to be acceptable for Fedora 15. I think, off the top

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:41 +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote: On 09/15/2010 03:35 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: I think we all realize that the timing was exceedingly bad on this. I think we should try to distill some lessons from this for how we approach 'invasive' features in the future. If

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:42 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: This should cover how to add new services. I needed to start svscanboot at boot. This used to be something in inittab, that I needed to futz with for upstart. It didn't seem to work in rc.local and when I tried reading the systemd

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:53:36AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Since, I am a co-maintainer of systemd and watching bugs flow through, I think we need a more concrete list of what is missing/needs to be fixed for this to be acceptable for Fedora 15. I think, off the top of my head, I would

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
drago01 (drag...@gmail.com) said: nitpick That's not true /nitpick (We do ship some native upstart services by default) Which? readahead and system-setup-keyboard ... and probably others I can't think of right now. Those aren't services in the classic sense. They're boot processes,

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:50:14 -0400 Bill Nottingham wrote: I do too. I suspect for situations like this we at a minimum need to adopt a more formal process for pulling feedback/votes/whatever outside of the meeting timeframe, whether it's calling a special session, enforcing a 'you must vote

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Horsley wrote: You left out removing the fanatical devotion to releasing every six months :-). I've really never understood that one. Why is virtually everything subordinate to getting a release out at an artificial deadline? Why not just release when there appears to be enough things

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:10:12AM -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Excellent point. F13 may be a great release for developers, but for consumers it is a real dud. It doesn't offer anything new or different, just the promise or allure of some background stability issues resolved, perhaps.

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: What was F14 with systemd going to offer that's new or different for consumers? I guess I can't truly answer that, except for the fact that it was promising and seeming to deliver faster booting. I turn off my computer when I go out and at night, since I have to pay for

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Ryniker
since the current justification for having stable releases at all is 'to handle upgrade cases we can't handle with yum' What about installation from media such as DVD for users who cannot reasonably access more than a gigabyte of updates from the Net? -- test mailing list

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:24:47PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: ...or, since the current justification for having stable releases at all is 'to handle upgrade cases we can't handle with yum', have a new stable release only when we hit such a case (and try to hit as few such cases as

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/15/2010 06:45 PM, Chris Adams wrote: I think service should also be hooked up so that it continues to work for all services (this may be done already, but I've been out of town and busy with a couple of projects and unable to test lately). Again, the common uses (start, stop, restart,

heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
So, fesco seem to have voted not to take systemd for f14 in the meeting today. this means we'll need to revert to upstart for Beta, which gives us a tight schedule for Beta RC1. Bill Nottingham says he'll work on the reversion, but it'll need testing; this is a heads-up that if people can plan to

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Are there any plans to maintain systemd F14 repo for people who want to help in testing? Regards, M -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 00:20 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Are there any plans to maintain systemd F14 repo for people who want to help in testing? I believe the systemd package will still be in the distro and you'll be able to use it by booting with 'init=/bin/systemd' as a kernel parameter,

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/15 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 00:20 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Are there any plans to maintain systemd F14 repo for people who want to help in testing? I believe the systemd package will still be in the distro and you'll be able to use it by

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Vaclav Misek
On 09/15/2010 12:20 AM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Are there any plans to maintain systemd F14 repo for people who want to help in testing? Regards, M Yes, I want to ask the same question. I had only minor problems with systemd and I'd like to keep it. IMO In case it will be impossible to

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Vaclav Misek wrote: I had only minor problems with systemd and I'd like to keep it. I had no problems that come to mind and I'd like to keep it. Please explain explicitly how consumers can continue to use it, rather than regressing: grub kernel parameters, other required settings to maintain

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/15 Petrus de Calguarium pguec...@gmail.com: Vaclav Misek wrote: I had only minor problems with systemd and I'd like to keep it. I had no problems that come to mind and I'd like to keep it. Please explain explicitly how consumers can continue to use it, rather than regressing: grub

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/14/2010 09:46 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: So, fesco seem to have voted not to take systemd for f14 in the meeting today. Unwise decision. It's going to be interesting to see in the near future what fesco will slip through.. JBG -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Unwise decision. Yes, disappointing decision, to be sure. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/14/2010 11:17 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Unwise decision. Yes, disappointing decision, to be sure. Yeah that too.. Everything involving this feature was done by the book and then some and for some reason the treatment and it's author that this

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-gfeature=related You have a sense of humour :-)) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 23:24 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 00:20 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Are there any plans to maintain systemd F14 repo for people who want to help in testing? I believe the systemd package will still be in the distro and you'll be able to

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/9/15 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: I expect systemd development to move to rawhide now. Not sure how much sense it makes to keep developing systemd in f14 It seems to me that many F14 users would like try/test it. , in particular since the thing that was perceived as lacking was

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Micha� Piotrowski (mkkp...@gmail.com) said: , in particular since the thing that was perceived as lacking was mostly system integration. ??? I do not understand this argument. Upstart is still lacking of system integration. All scripts are sysvinit style, so it's not integrated. So

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/15/2010 02:26 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hypothetical example: - F-14 has systemd-10 in the repo - there's some bug in an included systemd service file in an app that needs fixed. - oops, to do that right requires an updated systemd package, say, version 12 - the version of that

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/15/2010 09:11 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 09/15/2010 02:26 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Hypothetical example: - F-14 has systemd-10 in the repo - there's some bug in an included systemd service file in an app that needs fixed. - oops, to do that right requires an updated