id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,branch,branch_author,launchpad_bug
5941,facilitate dependency between service state at startService time,teratorn,,"It is often desirable to initiate a controlled, asynchronous start-up of a Service, or MultiService collection. E.g. a database may need to be contacted before the Service can be considered ""started"".

To accommodate this, startService() and privilegedStartService() could be documented as returning None, or a Deferred.

Twisted code that consumes Service objects should be enhanced to support the extended interface, and chain the Deferred, or otherwise take an appropriate action to propogate the startup result.

By default, I think MultiService.startService()'s Deferred should errback if any of the child Service objects errback, as consistent with the current case of synchronous startup (and synchronous Python exceptions).

Thoughts?",enhancement,new,normal,,core,,,,,,