[Queue-developers] Gnu Queue: new developer - me!

[John M. T. Jr. <jo...@ca...>]

Hi,

Werner just added me as a developer to Gnu Queue,
and I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself.

My name is John Taylor,
I work at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., in Cary, NC.
I have been programming in C and C++ since sometime in the 80s,
and my primary platforms are Linux and Solaris,
with side trips to Windows, DOS, and PalmOS.

We recently bought a bunch of IBM Xeon and Opteron 1u
servers, and my first reflex was to load DQS on them,
which I used to use on Suns.
Alas, DQS is no more, so I started looking at what the net
had to offer. Constraints were 1. Open Source, 2. Free, as in beer.

This quickly ruled out
   LSF (no source, $$$),
   Condor (weird licensing),
   Sun "GridWare" (formerly Codine, formerly DQS, weird licensing, no 
source),
   and a couple of others.

Gnu Queue and GNQS emerged on top, to me.

Gnu Queue's cool rsh-like facility really set it apart from the others.

But when I went to download and compile it on RH8,
I couldn't!

And when I went to subscribe to the mailing lists,
I couldn't!

And when I examined the file dates, they were ancient!

Assuming there was still life in the project,
and noticing that people are still sending emails to the lists,
I decided to try to get Gnu Queue useful to me -
and that's why I am here.

I am not sure how much impact I will have,
or how much time I can commit,
but my goal is to get GQ into shape so that I can simply
download and compile it on my RH8 & RH9 and Solaris 8 & 9 machines.
Beyond that, who knows?
I think the market is wide-open for a good, solid queuing product -
and GQ might as well be it!

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks!

best regards,

-- johnT
John McKowen Taylor, Jr.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
200 Regency Forest Dr.
Cary, NC 27511 USA
+1 919 481 6835