Hi, some of you might still remember the Batch Queuing Systems BoF at Debconf10, where we briefly discussed the past/present/future of this software in Debian. We talked about the lack of maintainers, and possible strategies to consolidate our efforts.
During this meeting I've learned about Condor [0], and my personal conclusion was that it could be the one solution covering most variety of use cases we could think of at this point. Unfortunately, it wasn't available in Debian at all, and upstream had only recently moved to a proper FOSS licensing scheme. In the meantime, however, things have improved a lot. Red Hat is investing into the project (its Grid-computing infrastructure is based on it [1]). I have attended their project conference "CondorWeek" in 2011 and gave a talk proposing a collaboration to integrate Condor into Debian [2] -- which was well perceived. And as of very very recently we have an official package in Debian unstable [3]. Upstream has promised long-term commitment to help Debian ship a high-quality package. The experience of the past year has shown that problems, once reported, are addressed quickly by upstream, making the current official package ship with almost no necessary patches. Right now the Condor package only builds a fraction of the built-in functionality (although what is built is already quite comprehensive for the task of a batch queuing system). I'm working on enabling build-time testing and the kFreeBSD port needs some love. But overall it looks like we are going to have Debian wheezy ship Condor. Unfortunately, I can't attend Debconf this year, but maybe there are enough people interested in the topic to have a follow-up BoF to revisit the issue. What is the status of similar software in Debian (GridEngine, Slurm, ...)? Michael [0] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ [1] http://redhat.com/products/mrg/grid/ [2] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2011/presentations/hanke-condor-debian.pdf [3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/condor -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510074911.GD26197@meiner