This looks very useful, both for application developers/testers, and when helping volunteers diagnose faults via a project message board.
But either process is slowed down and made harder by a missing link in the chain. The local client knows a task only by its name, as in the list below. The project website default display (except at Einstein) displays Task IDs for results - and always displays tasks in order of ID #, even when displaying names. It would be most helpful to be able to associate names and Task IDs - either by passing the Task ID # to the client in the <result> block when allocating the task, or by adding a task name search facility to the task listing pages on project websites. >________________________________ > From: David Anderson <[email protected]> >To: BOINC Developers Mailing List <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, 8 September 2013, 20:54 >Subject: [boinc_dev] new GUI RPC for getting completed /reported tasks > > >Fred (developer of BoincTasks) pointed out that it's hard for GUIs >to learn the outcome of completed tasks, >since the interval from when the task completes to when it's reported >can be just a few seconds, >and after this the client forgets about the task. > >To address this problem, I did the following: > >- the client keeps an in-memory list of tasks that have been reported > in the last hour. > For each tasks it stores > - the project URL > - the result name > - the app name > - the final elapsed time > - the exit status > - the time when the task completed > - the time when the task was reported > >- There's a new GUI RPC, get_old_tasks(), which fetches this list. > >This feature will be in the next client release. > >-- David >_______________________________________________ >boinc_dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >(near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
