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Greetings, programs!<br>
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This week's update will be brief, if optimistic:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font
color="#888888"><br>
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-- Marc</font></span>
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