[Queue-announce] New GNU Queue maintainer
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From: wernerkrebs <wer...@ya...> - 2002-08-20 16:05:52
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Good news! Mike Castle (da...@ix...) has volunteered to become the new GNU Queue maintainer! GNU Queue is once again an active project! >From his homepage (www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/) it sounds like he is a very competent system administrator, so I think we are in very good hands here and look forward to seeing what Mike can and will do with GNU Queue. I suppose the thing to say right off the bat is that I'm not sure how familar Mike will be with some of the discussions I've had on and off-line with many of you regarding GQ's features. There have been some widely differing opinions. The Debian people, for example, stress reliability and low-latency (which we tried to do when go rid of the NFS protocol). Other people would like a very simple project (perhaps even a shell script). Others want interactive load balancing and minimal end-user training via the proxy interface (our strong point). Others wanted installation by non-root users. The Internet Draft people wanted an Internet-wide protocol that would be highly scalable, be IPv6 compatible and work across NAT boxes (and this can be to some extent because we have a peer-to-peer protocol; if it's made non-deterministic and keeps track of its network neighbor's responses, it can be made extremely scalable. Going across NAT boxes with IPv4 is another matter, although that can be tackled as well. The Texas Instrument/Alantro people wanted centralized control, and they wanted a client-server and SQL-database protocol, which they added but which hasn't been popular. Some people wanted Free process migration in various forms, which we added. Others have complained about the documentation and how that should look. And so on. So, I hope you'll get Mike up to speed with your latest opinions on what GQ should look like going into the future as I think that will be a tremendous help to him. Mike ... take it from here! -- Werner G. Krebs, Ph.D. Postgraduate Researcher Integrative Biosciences San Diego Supercomputer Center MC 0527 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0527, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com |