Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 01/31/2013 07:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 17:32 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 01/31/2013 05:12 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:27 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>
>>>>   I'm the one that has been looking into the benefit from which
>>> component and of which cron job it would be useful for migrating to
>>>> systemd timer units and that's totally irrelevant to that feature
>>> as I mentioned to FESCO  but given that Bill Notting seems to be
>>> butting > into that effort and planning to do it i'll just leave
>>> that up to him.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nobody is "butting" into anything.  There can be more than one
>>> proposal.  We get to discuss competing ideas and form consensus.
>>>
>> Have fun with your proposals and implementing them just dont mix the
>> cron migration up with the timer units ( which has been there from the
>> get go )...
> I agree we should keep them separate. The feature page talks solely
> about the feature itself being present: it's a publicity feature, a
> 'talk about this neat upstream feature!' feature. It does not in any way
> state that any existing services should or will be migrated from cron to
> systemd timers. If that were going to happen in any kind of wholesale
> manner, that should be a separate feature (and on that basis, we
> probably shouldn't do it for F19, as the feature deadline is now gone).

Maintainers can just choose to do so today as an update to their component.

JBG