On Sunday, August 03, 2014 02:16:37 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/08/2014 09:23, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday 02 August 2014 16:53:26 James wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
<snipped> > > Unless you are dealing with Big Data projects, like Google, Facebook, > > Amazon, big banks,... you don't have much use for those projects. > > My wife works in BigData for real, she and Joost speak the same > language, I don't :-) > She reckons Big Data is like teenage sex - everyone says they are doing > it and no-one really does ;-D I know a few companies that actually do use it. But, the biggest issue with the whole "Big Data" thing is that noone really agrees on what it actually is. > > Mesos looks like a nice project, just like Hadoop and related are also > > nice. But for most people, they are as usefull as using Exalytics. > > A bit OT, but it might be worthwhile for interested persons to get good > ebuilds going for these projects. Someone will use it on Gentoo, and it > will add value to the project. Much like gems and other > business-oriented packages benefit I agree, but just to implement a decent scheduler, I still think it's overkill. > > A scheduler should not have a large set of dependencies that you wouldn't > > use otherwise. That makes Chronos a non-option to me. > > > > Martin's project looks promising, but doesn't store the schedules > > internally. For repeating schedules, like what Alan was describing, you > > need to put those into scripts and start those from an existing cron. > > Sounds like a small feature-add. If Martin did his groundwork > correctly[1] then the core logic will work and it's just a case of > adding some persistence and loading the data back in on demand The code looks clean and I think it shouldn't be too much work to add it. > > Of the 2, I think improving Martin's project is the most likely option for > > me as it doesn't have additional dependencies and seems to be easily > > implemented. > Don't forget Martins is the guy who does eix. > Street cred? check > Knows Gentoo? check > > [1] I only say it this way as I haven't evaluated his code at all yet so > have no idea how far Martin has taken it The code is clean and does what Martin says it does. -- Joost
