Upstart Cookbook

[Grail Dane]

Hello Guys
Gotta say I am extremely excited to see this cookbook.  I have struggled to setup my Upstart onlysystem and am hoping this will give me the insight I need.
Cheers againgrail

> Subject: Re: Upstart Cookbook
> From: clint at ubuntu.com
> To: scott at netsplit.com
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:25:27 -0700
> CC: upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com; ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com; james.hunt at canonical.com
> 
> 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.hunt at 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
> 
> 
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