[Labs-l] Tool Labs update and news, oh my!

Mon Mar 4 17:24:49 UTC 2013

Greetings, programs!

This week's update will be brief, if optimistic:

On the news front, there have been performance and reliability issues 
with Gluster than are being worked on by Ryan Lane. He is experimenting 
with an upcoming network driver and tweaking with automount timing to 
improve the situation.  Along with the database replication, the shared 
storage is one of the key component of the infrastructure that are going 
to receive the most attention in the short term.

There is now a new project (named, predictably enough, "tools") that is 
the intended destination of the new architecture for the Tool Labs.  We 
have a functionnal webservice environment, as well as a workable compute 
cluster to support work and long running processes.  Already, a few 
brave souls have stepped forward to test that new environment; others 
are welcome to peek in or join the project with the usual "beta" caveats.

I'm not ready to open the gates entirely yet, since none of the 
management is currently automatized (that's a big part of my TODO for 
the week); but tools which have no dependencies on access to databases 
should already be able to be experimentally moved to the new project.

This week, I plan to concentrate on the first draft of an interface 
through which tool maintainers can manage their assets on the project, 
and do a first documentation pass regarding how to write and/or move a 
tool on the new project.

-- Marc
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