Re: Announcing shepherd-run

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Runciter via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
<guix-devel@gnu.org> skribis:

> I actually think this is cool though, and the rest is mostly random
> thoughts now that I think about this problem: a herd-based minimalist
> alarm clock for production needs 2 features and must not include a third
> feature:
>
> * Repeat, but this is trivial to do with a script.
>
> * A heuristic to output sound at all costs, while trying hard to output
>   through speakers and not headphones. This is harder, maybe not
>   absolutely required; I suppose phones get it right but I'm not
>   even sure.
>
> * A keystroke to stop the alarm from the X lock screen; surely the
>   significant other will close their mind to the truth that this feature
>   increases the attack surface and must not be included.

All good points!  I’d like to have this, but I think it’s beyond the
scope of the ‘timer’ feature.  :-)

Ludo’.