- Improved Visualisation (more dynamic)?
User Sessions (see bug 776392)
- Enable them
- Add ability to distinguish user jobs from system jobs in "initctl list" output
- (requires new D-Bus method).
- Add ability to specify supplementary group to run job as?
- new stanzas
- mkdir
- chown
- chgrp
- setuid and setgid / user and group
- Add cgroup support
- (and add new cgroup stanza)
- create a new event when /dev/console writeable
- Logging of job output
- ring buffer / klog patch to log *all* upstart events (from "startup"!)
- globbing of events:
start on foo*
- inotify bridge
- (Good progress has already been made on this).
- Introduce clone(2) for namespace magic
- Proper state-passing for re-exec
- Enable Upstart in initramfs
- Interactive boot
- (Good progress has already been made on this)
- Abstract well-known Jobs
- Ideally, all abstract jobs would be "well-known" to avoid any distros hard-coding job conditions on particular display managers for example.
- Event aliases
- Same logic as for "Abstract well-known Jobs".
- Full job file audit (.conf *and* SysV jobs!)
- proc connector (to avoid ptrace issues)
- Understand problems tracing PIDS for Java apps.
- Testing
- Improved system testing framework
- Ensure all possible transitions between runlevels are fully tested.
- Finish the Upstart Cookbook (and get it translated)
- Killing
- Ability to specify alternate signals to kill a job
- Ability to send arbitrary signals to jobs?
initctl kill -USR1 myjob
Complete transition to Upstart-only shutdown and decouple Upstart jobs from SystemV (/etc/init.d/sendsigs)
(See 750113).
- Scotts temporal events.
- Upstart still needs to provide deeper and easier control of services and status on the server to convince and seduce users used to 'classic' environment. Suggestions are: central services app (ncurses), remove things like rcconf, stickiness of status of services, easy way to control what will run or not on a server as services
Since Natty, upstart has now .override files to control services (see Natty release notes : http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha3#Override%20Files, we need now either a ncurse base interface or a 'chkconfig' type command to make service control easier than the method indicated in the release notes