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