Jordan Sissel

(summarizing the conversation I had with @coderanger about this) I suppose it was two parts. First, the small claim that Chef doesn't handle different service types very well. Puppet may...

Haha, well, already broke that barrier by implementing launchd support (Mac OSX launchd is configured with "plist" files which are XML)

Would need to find a Solaris Vagrant box to do testing with.

Might be able to use http://omnios.omniti.com/media/omnios-latest.box but I don't know how much code violence occurs in the transition from plain Solaris to Illumos to OmniOS ;)

@yeroc thanks! This will help :)

In my mind, a 'task' is a something more suited to describing a once-run "job" like filesystem mountings or network configuration. Wide and generally, Systemd has "Units" and Upstart has...

Indeed. Personally, I have no use for "one-shot" tasks like upstart tasks or things like systemd mounts, so thus far pleaserun has focused on long running service processes only. I...

Some discussion after CentOS Dojo about systemd reminded me to mention that I am still in support of adding one-shot tasks to pleaserun, but need advice/discussion to steer the decisions...

(Waxing poetic about operations...) Operationally, I am against order-dependent software. Practically speaking, "app" requires "db" could just have the startup procedure of "app" wait until "db" is available. This puts...

+1 Should we limit --depends to programs[1] that are run on the same platform[2]? 1) "program" - what pleaserun calls the thing you're running, like apache or nginx or redis....