implementing serialized startup sequence

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Janne Karhunen
<janne.karhunen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Janne Karhunen
> <janne.karhunen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm not really sure I'm understanding what you're after, maybe you could
>>> give me an example what you think the conf files should look like?
>>
>> Possibly something along the lines of:
>>
>> start on something
>> serial section
>>  job1
>>  job2
>>  job3
>> end serial section
>
> Forgot to add: would be great if this thing would carry the
> state of the corresponding tasks. If jobs1-3 are running,
> this thing is reported as running.

    What you're asking for has been called job groups in the past by
some; this was sort of kibosh-ed because focus on Upstart was
diminished in my $JOB and priorities and focuses were realigned.
Thanks,
-Garrett