[arch-general] [RFC] patches to initscripts

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> While looking through bugs for [core] packages, I notice that there are a
> large number of bug report for these three packages.  In total they account
> for ~13% of the bugs in the tracker!

[...]

> But given these are some of the uniqueness of Arch, I wonder what we _as a
> group_ could to do to improve this situation?  Perhaps organize a
> hack-a-thon on IRC one day?  Or we could advertise for help, with the
> selection criterion being a git repo provided by the applicant showing they
> can do stuff?

As discussed with Allan, here are some patches to initscripts:
<https://github.com/teg/initscripts-arch>.

Comments very much welcome.

I started off with what appeared to me as the low-hanging fruit. Once
I have had feedback on this I'll have a look at more difficult (or
invasive) problems.

My long-term goal is to ease the maintenance burden of initscripts by
simplifying them and harmonizing them with other distros/projects
(without, of course, loosing any of their features).

Cheers,

Tom