Re: [Clockwork-developers] Kicking around some requirements

[Joel L. <jo...@lo...>]

+- On Tuesday (12/11/2001 12:50) "Charles Brian Hill" <br...@do...> Wrote-
| 1) Dynamic evaluation of schedule:  There should be a capability within the
| scheduler to evaluate certain values dynamically.  In other words,
| definitions of jobs could include, say, some variable, whose value would not
| be evaluated until runtime.

Can you give an example of this? I'm having a hard time understanding this
feature.

Another feature I think would be great is the ability to assign machines to
user-defined categories, and to have jobs run on systems that match
certain categories, in addition to scheduling jobs on individual systems.

For instance, if you assign all your Solaris systems to the "Solaris"
category, you can set up your Solaris backup job *once* to run on all the
"Solaris"-type systems, and when you add a new system, simply assigning
it the relevant categories means that your standard jobs will be executed.

I'm going to try to summarize everyone's wish list of features and put it
somewhere in the documentation section of the project web site sometime
soon.

-- 
Joel