taskforest-announce — Announces new versions of taskforest

[Taskforest-announce] Announcing RSS feed on TaskForest website

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello everyone.

I've modified the taskforest.com website a bit.  It now includes an RSS
feed.  I plan on posting news and entries pertaining to job scheduling and
TaskForest on that feed.  The location of the feed is
http://www.taskforest.com/feed.xml - if you would like to subscribe to it.

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] Announcing TaskForest version 1.37

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello.

TaskForest version 1.37 has been released.  This release includes automatic
retries of jobs that failed, and sending of emails when jobs fail, or are
retried, or succeed after first failing.

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest version 1.36 released

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello.

TaskForest version 1.36 has been released.  For more information, please see
http://www.taskforest.com/

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] Announcing TaskForest version 1.35

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello, everyone.

TaskForest version 1.35 is now available.  Please go to
http://www.taskforest.com for more details.

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] Taskforest 1.33 is now available.

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello:

Version 1.33 of TaskForest is now available.   The changes in this release
are:


   - *Added support for external dependencies (jobs depending on jobs that
   are in other families)*.
   - Removed the VERSION string from all the .pm files, and moved it to
   Makefile.PL. Thils will mean less diffs between versions.
   - Got rid of unused code.
   - Improved some test cases, to reduce the risk of false test failures.
   - Fixed a bug where the last entry of a recurring job was sometimes not
   run.
   - Modified taskforestd and taskforestdssl to accept the 'chained' option
   in the config file.


Thanks,

Aijaz

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.26 is now available

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello again:

There was a minor bug in version 1.25.  The source file Calendar.pm
erroneously included a dependency on the perl module Date::Calc.  While
Date::Calc is a great module, TaskForest does not need it.  The dependency
should not have been there. I didn't notice it in my testing because I
already have Date::Calc installed on my dev machine and on my prod machines
as well.  If you don't have Date::Calc installed, the "make test" part of
the TaskForest install will fail.  I have removed the one offending line
from Calendar.pm and re-released TaskForest as version 1.26.  Sorry for the
inconvenience.  The new version (version 1.26) is now available on
SourceForge, and should be available on CPAN shortly.

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.25 is now available

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Hello:

TaskForest 1.25 is now available.  The major enhancement in this release is
the inclusion of calendars.

A calendar is a set of rules that defines on what days a job may run. Each
rule can may or may not conclusively determine whether or not a Family
should run today. The rules are evaluated in the order in which they are
specified. The last rule that conclusively determines whether of not a
Family should run wins, in the case of conflicting rules. If none of the
rules is conclusive, then the Family will not run today. You can set rules
to specify certain dates or ranges of dates, or specific days, like "third
friday of every month."

I've also added a new FAQ page to the website: http://www.taskforest.com/

Thanks,

Aijaz

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.24 is now available

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

TaskForest version 1.24 is now available.  Please visit
http://www.taskforest.com for the most recent documentation as well as
instructions on how to download the software.

This release introduces the concept of tokens.  A token is a new kind of
dependency.  If a job depends on a token, it must acquire a free token
before it can run, or wait for another job to release a token after
completion.  Since there is a finite set of tokens, you can use tokens to
prevent too many jobs from running at the same time.

For example, if there are 20 jobs that rely on token T, but only 5 instances
of the token, only a maximum of 5 of those jobs may run at the same time.

This release also formalizes the way Families with foreign time zones are
handled.  This allows you to 'time shift' your family, essentially allowing
your family to run for 24 hours in a later timezone.  This shifts the end of
day towads the end of the family's running time.

Thanks,

Aijaz

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.23 is now available

[Aijaz A. <ai...@en...>]

TaskForest 1.23 is now available.

This release fixes a nasty bug where Family files were not being parsed
properly if the files were in DOS format (with CRLF endings, instead of just
LF).  Unfortunately, most web browsers save textarea text with CRLF, so a
Family file that was originally in Unix format (LF) could wind up being in
DOS (CRLF) format if you edited it via the website.

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.22 is now available

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

TaskForest 1.22 is now available.

o Added the ability to release all dependencies from a job.  This makes
  the job available to run immediately, regardless of how many jobs it is
  supposed to wait for, or what time dependency it has.  Releasing a job
  effectively changes its status from 'Waiting' to 'Ready.'  This option
  is only available to jobs that are currently in the 'Waiting' state.

o Fixed a minor bug where status on the website was sometimes showing a
  previous day's status if the website had been up for more than a day.

o Added a line break between the words in the headers in the status and
  log pages on the website, so that the table doesn't take up too much
  horizontal space.

o Eliminated a debug message saying that the ignore_regex option changed
  every time the system cycled.

Thanks,

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] TaskForest 1.21 is now available

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Version 1.21 of TaskForest is now available.

>From the Change Log:

o Fixed a bug that was causing the rerun and mark commands run with the
  --cascade or --dependents_only flag to print an error message when
  there was, in fact, no error, and possibly exit before rerunning or
  marking all requested jobs.

Thanks to Rosco Rouse for reporting the bug.

Aijaz.

[Taskforest-announce] Test Message

[Aijaz A. <ai...@en...>]

Test message so that messages start getting archived.  Please ignore.