The Facebook Open Academy program is interested in this project. As potential org admin I want to be sure that this project has community support.
Please leave your feedback at Bug 57613 - Distributed cron replacement https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57613 On 11/22/2013 10:26 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > On 11/22/2013 05:03 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >> Interestingly enough, I /do/ have a project I'd be happy to put forward >> that's quite in scope if we'd like to touch on something more >> system-level than our usual UX fare: there is a serious hole in >> reasonably self-contained distributed cron-like schedulers in the open >> source world, and I can see a number of valuable uses for one in Tool >> Labs (and probably some spots in prod!). >> >> I've had that idea at the back of my mind for some time, and I was >> planning on starting it myself but for the lack of actual free time. >> This is a very well delineated project of sufficiently modest scope that >> a small team of students may well be able to tackle succesfully in that >> kind of timeframe, and it's sufficiently generally useful that it makes >> for a worthwhile open source project. >> >> Thoughts? Is it worth suggesting and putting forward? > > If you ask me, yes, of course! > > Please add it to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects > > If community discussion is needed/useful then a good idea would be to > file an enhancement request in Bugzilla linked to the project > description at the wiki page. Anyway we create reports for all the > projects we bring forward in order to track them. > > Thank you for stepping in with a project you have the skills to mentor > but don't have the time to depevol yourself. That's the attitude! > -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
