Auteur: tito Datum: Aan: dng Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] I offered to help
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:41:27 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think perhaps a few of you might find this true story relevant
> to my recent offer to be on a runit run script committee...
>
> In the spring or summer of 1972 I heard that the US had invaded
> Cambodia, and went out to find a protest. I biked over to Mundelein
> College, where there was a 300 person meeting about what to do about
> the invasion. I raised my hand and suggested a few of us leave right
> now and put "Stop the war now!" signs in as many storefronts as would
> let us.
>
> The meeting leader dismissed my suggestion, and several voiced
> objections to my suggestion. The discussion moved on. Three minutes
> later a woman came up to me and said "I'll go with you."
>
> She and I went to a print shop and got 30 signs printed, then went into
> every storefront on Devon Avenue between Sheridan and Clark. At each
> store we spoke to the owner or manager explaining why the war was bad
> for business and bad for our country, and most listened carefully to
> what we said.
>
> About 3 hours after we left the meeting, half the storefronts on Devon
> between Sheridan and Clark sported "Stop the war now!" signs in their
> windows, and at Mundelein College they were probably still bikeshedding
> about what date to hold their next meeting. I draw that bikeshedding
> conclusion because there were absolutely no antiwar events in that
> neighborhood for a couple months.
>
> So by all means, construct a Devuan developed init system, construct a
> Devuan developed unit to init script converter. I promise I won't
> interfere. But please do me these favors:
>
> * Please tell me the URL of the list of already created runit scripts
> in the runit-scripts package.
> * Please tell me where to find the list of runit run scripts that have
> been requested but not yet created.
>
> * Please tell me who is in charge of the runit-scripts package and how
> to contact him/her.