I have a question for users: how do they ensure their client apps have configuration XML file that are kept up to date?
I know how I do it to date (get the site config off the site team, have my private copy in SVN), but that is too brittle, and diagnosing failures is pretty tricky. All you get is "Failed to Submit Job!" exceptions and local stack traces, from which you have to work backwards to the work.
I'm thinking of looking at what it would take for a job submitter to ask the tracker for its config data, to get things like the various directory bases from the cluster, instead of being compiled into the client. Then the management problem becomes one of keeping the cluster configuration under control, which is a much easier proposition.
what do people do right now? -steve
