Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Neil, (CC'ing secretary@) Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 23.53:43 Neil McGovern a écrit : > The responses to a valid vote shall be signed by the vote key created > for this vote. The public key for the vote, signed by the Project > secretary, is appended below. From what I can see [0], the public

Re: How about always sending a copy of proposals, amendements, secondes etc. to the Secretary ?

2014-11-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/11/14 at 18:45 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Would it help to amend point 4.2.5 of our constitution, to request > > that in addition to the "announcement on a publicly-readable > > electronic mailing list", a copy of proposals, amendments, sponso

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
> - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > [ 5 ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general) require a specific init system > [ 3 ] Choice 2: Support for other init systems is recommended, but not > mandatory > [ 2 ] Choice 3:

Re: How about always sending a copy of proposals, amendements, secondes etc. to the Secretary ?

2014-11-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: > Would it help to amend point 4.2.5 of our constitution, to request > that in addition to the "announcement on a publicly-readable > electronic mailing list", a copy of proposals, amendments, sponsors, > etc. must also be sent to the Secretary ? It seems

How about always sending a copy of proposals, amendements, secondes etc. to the Secretary ? (Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling)

2014-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 07:32:36PM +, Neil McGovern a écrit : > > This vote has currently used up about 15 hours of my time, plus the time > to read -vote, and I really didn't want to wait up until gone midnight > to post the CfV. Hi Neil and everybody, first, thank you Neil for the hard wor

REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
Note: this is a re-issued CfV, please use the ballot below or your vote will be rejected. Voting is now open. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 The following ballot is for voting

Re: mysqld.service

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Ritesh Raj Sarraf: How are other packagers taking care of it ? There are a lot of server > daemons that need some sort of housekeeping. What I can recall > immediate are: mysql, open-iscsi, DM multipath etc.. Last feedback > (IIRC _not_ from the systemd maintainers) I had on it was to write a

Re: existing alternatives

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Svante Signell: The more important that Debian does not drop support for sysvinit > then, until alternatives have stabilized :) (and systemd/uselessd is > deferred to PID 2). PID 1 should be as small as possible, see a > proposed implementation in: http://ewontfix.com/14/ That proposed impleme

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 01:30:18PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > > > [ ] Ch

Re: runit

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Gerrit Pape: What is the reason that one can't easily run logind, or even better > a systemd process running logind and possibly other services, under > the runsv program from the runit init scheme, or through > /etc/inittab? One cannot run systemd under runit because it detects its PID and b

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 4 November 2014 21:30, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: >> > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e >> > [ ] Choice 1: Packages ma

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > > [ ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general) require a specific init system > >

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:17:51PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I cannot parse the last bullet point, sorry ("and any the release > team"?). Also, the proposal does not mention the release team. > "Reasonable changes to preserve or improve sysvinit support should be > accepted through the jessie

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/11/14 at 19:27 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > > > On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil McGovern writes ("Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling"): > Choice 2 seems to be about 4 things: ... > This is obviously quite hard to put into one line. It is more important not to be misleading, than it is to capture everything in the proposal. The summary you have

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 07:11:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think this is still possible. It's a shame that this slightly odd > pre-CFV (CFV posted before voting period opens) wasn't explicitly a > draft, and posted only to -vote. > This vote has currently used up about 15 hours of my time,

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 07:54:46PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > > [ ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general)

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling"): > Second, after asking for an accurate summary, I replied in > <20141017202805.ga10...@xanadu.blop.info> (private mail to you+Ian, as > was your initial query) with: "support for alternative init systems is > d

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Neil, On 04/11/14 at 17:53 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > [ ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general) require a specific init system > [ ] Choice 2: Support alternative init sy

Re: Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 05:53:36PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 57dd4d7c-3e92-428f-8ab7-10de5172589e > [ ] Choice 1: Packages may not (in general) require a specific init system > [ ] Choice 2: Support alternative ini

Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?

2014-11-04 Thread Josh Triplett
Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 4 November 2014 16:25, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > Gerrit Pape writes: > >> > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> > > > Real problems? Apa

Call for Votes: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
This is the first call for votes on the above GR. PLEASE NOTE: voting is not yet open. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 The following ballot is for voting on init system couplin

Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?

2014-11-04 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 4 November 2014 16:25, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >> Russ Allbery wrote: >> > Gerrit Pape writes: >> > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> > > > Real problems? Apart from a couple of more reasonable peo

Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?

2014-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Gerrit Pape writes: > To the best of my knowledge, neither cgroups nor d-bus require pid 1. Indeed, which is why systemd-shim works. > Is this after all the root cause, a rather complex API implemented in > pid 1 although it doesn't require any pid 1 capabilities? Look at it this way: if your

Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?

2014-11-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > Gerrit Pape writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > Real problems? Apart from a couple of more reasonable people, I have > > > > yet to see systemd criticism in

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/11/14 at 02:16 +, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Don" == Don Armstrong writes: > > >> Personally, I agree that having multiple active discussion/second > >> periods on debian-vote is problematic. > > Don> Right; that's what we seemed to agree on as well. > > Don> I think

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes ("Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members"): > I'd find arguments of the form "I personally would find it confusing/bad > to have both going on because ..." more compelling than arguments of > the form "it would generally be confusing/bad." What I'm saying is that > I'd be a lot

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 07:00:46PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: > This seems to have stalled and I'm disappointed to see that because I > think this is an important issue. To be frank, I find quite odd to call something in Debian "stalled" on the basis that it didn't complete in 2 weeks. Especially c

Re: Results for init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 02:43:13PM +, devo...@vote.debian.org wrote: > This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote results. > Official results shall follow, sent in by the vote taker, namely > Debian Project Secretary Whelp, that wasn't meant to happen. Apologies for th

Re: Results for init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread Steve Kostecke
devo...@vote.debian.org said: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > >=_1415112161-9799-0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--=_1415112161-9799-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.503) > >This is a mu

Results for init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread devotee
Greetings, This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote results. Official results shall follow, sent in by the vote taker, namely Debian Project Secretary This email is just a convenience for the impatient. I remain, gentle folks, Your humble servant, De

Results for init system coupling

2014-11-04 Thread devotee
Greetings, This message is an automated, unofficial publication of vote results. Official results shall follow, sent in by the vote taker, namely Debian Project Secretary This email is just a convenience for the impatient. I remain, gentle folks, Your humble servant, De

Re: Maximum term for tech ctte members

2014-11-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:52:39PM +, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Sune" == Sune Vuorela writes: > > > Sune> I read the logs from the tech-ctte meeting, and my impression > Sune> was that - people in tech-ctte thinks that maximum terms are a > Sune> good idea - that they should pu

Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-11-04 Thread Andre Kiepe
Seconded I completely back the idea to avoid a fork when ever possible. It's possible to maintain systemd and just let it to do the init stuff. Syslog and other daemons can be implemented independently, as for example in a classic Unix way. SuSE Linux Enterprise 12 has gone this way just now. Pleas

Re: Last minute discussion

2014-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Saul Goode wrote: > >> I imagine I've missed other contributors, but the point is that for each of >> the 1084 Debian Developers who are being asked to vote in this GR, there are >> dozens, if not hundreds, of contributors who are deserving not