[Queue-developers] Feedback requested on detailed plans and code for contrib project

[W. G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

Although I haven't yet had a chance to look over the code, this seems very
impressive.

She includes C/C++ source code, patch files, a detailed plan, and about 12
slides, which she submitted to the list for our consideration.

Unfortunately, the listserver does not allow 1 Mb submissions (for obvious
reasons --- sending 1 Mb email messages to 100s of people is generally not a
good idea.)

The document and the slides were in StarOffice format
(http://www.staroffice.com) which I know not everyone has installed, so I used
StarOffice to reformat the document in HTML and text. I included versions of
the slides in HTML and JPG, so everyone can now view them with just a web
browser. (However, it makes the archive even larger, but this is offset by the
use of Gzip compression.)

I've put the document up on our anonymous FTP site for downloading by those of
you who are interested in viewing the slides or the source code.

The text file is short enough to be sent out to the list, so I'm attaching it
here in text format for your convenience (some of the formatting was lost from
the original StarOffice file; it is better viewed in HTML.)

The URL for the complete submission is (~600Kb, compressed):
ftp://queue.sourceforge.net/pub/queue/lau_gnuqueue_submission.tar.gz

Please send comments to the list.

Monica Lau wrote:

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> Subject: Queue Development Project
> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:24:08 -0700
> From: Monica Lau <ml...@al...>
> To: que...@li..., ml...@al...
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> Mr. Krebs,
>
> One requested feature of the Queue software has been to keep track of
> statistics and resource usage on running jobs by using a database as a
> central repository of job information.  I am a student intern working on
> a Queue development project that is very similar to this feature.  I
> have been working on this project for a few months now, and I have coded
> the basic structure.  We have many other features that we would like to
> incorporate, such as using a GNU SQL database as mentioned above.  This
> feature would not be hard to incorporate in our project.
>
> Attached is a tar file that includes the Queue programs that I've
> modified, the programs that I've written to incorporate in the Queue
> package, and the documentation about our project (which includes
> diagrams and text, both done in StarOffice).  All of my programs are
> written in C++ (we can modify the code if the programs must strictly be
> written in C).
>
> We would really appreciate it if you can give us feedback on this.  When
> you have time, please read the documentation (just the "overview"
> section will be fine) and look over the diagrams to get an idea of the
> architecture that we have in mind.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Monica Lau
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