On Friday 11 May 2012 12:07 AM, brlcad wrote:
>
> I think that detail doesn't really matter for the backend.  You could 
> implement a fantastic or terrible system in either.  It sounds like 
> you're more familiar with and interested in using Python and I don't 
> see a problem with that.
>

I've got enough experience with both Python and php, so that would not a 
problem at all.

> I don't think there's value in implementing your own CMS on the 
> front-end so therein is where there's a desire to have the site 
> integrate with some existing framework (whether mediawiki, drupal, or 
> something else).  Bridging that front-end through something like 
> Apache Thrift, however, sounds like a fantastic idea.  I'd probably be 
> more of a fan of that over Bottle just since that would mean we could 
> make interface clients in other languages (e.g., C++) more easily.

Probably, I could use the mediawiki web API service for a better 
integration [1]. I shall get myself familiar with the API web service 
and post an elaborate proposal w.r.t to the web API.

>
> As for your diagram, it would be nice if all processing could go 
> through the queue instead of allowing the web API to circumvent it. 
>  That will support improved scalability should the need ever arise, 
> not lock up the webserver handling requests (processing can be fully 
> asynchronous), and simplify the architecture a little bit.  If someone 
> encounters a bug a couple years from now in the web API, we know it's 
> not related to processing and should be able to isolate problems more 
> easily.

I agree.

>
>> 2. Data to be captured :
>>
>> The data that benchmark script currently captures includes machine 
>> description, version of brlcad installed, time stamps, run time, 
>> default values needed to run the benchmark, system info, processor 
>> info along with the performance metrics of the run. Along with that 
>> Sean wanted the tool to capture the compilation flags, the version of 
>> glibc used etc. I shall send in a mail *soon* discussing the db 
>> design to improve the db schema mentioned in the proposal[1]. I would 
>> also want to know what important information that you'd want me to 
>> capture.
> Basically "everything available" properly normalized and indexed, 
> including the actual log file as-is.  It should be just sitting in a 
> directory somewhere in case we ever want to automatically "repopulate" 
> from scratch or manually inspect.
>

Sure.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

-- 
Regards,
Suryajith Chillara.


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