Re: Trivial PR, fix shutdown of rc services started with onestart

Doug Barton wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 9:45 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> I have bad experiences with freebsd-rc mailing list - no responses to my
>> direct e-mails and no responses for PRs (PR sent more than year ago,
>> direct e-mails 3 month ago without any reaction).
>> I don't know who is responsible person for rc system and related PRs,
>> but it seems there is not enough man power to check/take/commit/or close
>> PRs related to rc.
>
> ... like everything else in a volunteer project. :)  I personally try to
> comment on the 2 tails of the bell-shaped curve, things that look
> interesting, or things that I oppose. For everything else in the vast
> middle ground I generally wait to see if someone else expresses interest
> in it.

If you are the only one person responsible for all rc stuff, then I 
understand that you cannot take each of them. I know you are hard 
working on other FreeBSD parts, so one person is not enough. :(

> Regarding your 2 open PRs, the first is a jail thing, and I have no
> experience with jails and don't feel competent to comment.

I directly asked BZ with jail related PR if he can take it or close it 
with some denying comment, but again without reply.
It is not good that there are old PRs without any response. It tends to 
duplicate PRs etc.

> Your cpu
> affinity patch looks interesting, but not enough to take my attention
> away from the 34 other things that are currently in my queue.

As I wrote above, I understand that one person cannot do it all.

There are other persons with similar patches to bring some new features 
in to rc.subr

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-January/001816.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-March/001877.html

> So, please don't take it personally. :)  freebsd-rc_at_ is still the best
> place to start a discussion about rc.d-related stuff, but that doesn't
> mean that other forums can't be used as well.

I tried to start some discussion about that things. I would like to 
learn more about FreeBSD rc stuff, but it is hard if nobody replied to 
my proposals / questions [1] / ideas.

I also sent some proposal of iSCSI initiator rc script [2]. iSCSI 
initiator kernel module and userland binaries are in FreeBSD for a long 
time, but it is "useless" without rc scipt - again, without any response.
I would like to write the script right and finish it to the commitable 
state, but it is hard without support of somebody skilled / without 
comments and discussion.

[1] bgfsck vs. background-fsck
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-January/001814.html

[2] rc script for iSCSI initiator
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-January/001841.html

Miroslav Lachman