On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Clint Byrum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clint@ubuntu.com">clint@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks for the feedback Scott! Appreciate you giving it a read. I know<br>
there's a lot there.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>Yeah, got to #4 and totally hit TL;DR; but will R more later</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> Although Upstart is used on on a number of different Operating<br>
> Systems (including Ubuntu, Google's Chromium OS and Google's<br>
> Chrome OS), the Ubuntu version is considered the "reference<br>
> implementation". This is primarily due to the fact that<br>
> Upstart was written specifically for Ubuntu (although this<br>
> does not mean that it cannot run on any other Linux-based<br>
> system).<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'd disagree with this. Reference implementation always implies that<br>
> other implementations should copy it as much as possible, and Ubuntu<br>
> is no way that. As long as Ubuntu still uses a hybrid of Sys V and<br>
> Upstart jobs, it can never be a reference implementation.<br>
><br>
><br>
> It may be that you mean what the document corresponds to, in which<br>
> case use a different term ;-)<br>
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</div>Good point. I would have to agree that the use of the term "reference<br>
implementation" is incorrect. I don't know of a term that best describes<br>
what it is succinctly.<br>
<br>
How about "The most complete implementation of the intended use of<br>
Upstart." ?<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>But again, Ubuntu isn't really using Upstart how it's intended.</div><div><br></div><div>Chromium OS, WebOS and Maemo (mayitrestinpeace) are far closer because they got to start off from scratch.</div>
<div> </div><div>Scott</div></div>