Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, August 02, 2014 11:18:32 AM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 01/08/2014 21:35, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> On 01/08/2014 20:17, James wrote:
> >>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>>> New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from
> >>>> 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the
solution to
> >>>> all
> >>>> ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not
> >>>> clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and
implement no
> >>>> error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from
STOUT
> >>>
> >>> Sounds like a department full of computer scientist I inherited a
few
> >>> decades ago...........
> >>
> >> I've met folks like that....
> >> Brilliant in their chosen field but completely useless outside it? The
> >> kind of fellows who see nothing wrong with eating a barbeque'd
steak
> >> with a spoon because they can get a result?
> >>
> >>> I know nothing bout chronos, but I find it an interesting
read....ymmv.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/
> >>> http://airbnb.github.io/chronos/
> >>> https://github.com/airbnb/chronos
> >>
> >> Aaaaaaaah, now this sounds like something I can use. Proper
dependency
> >> chains, Restful JSON interface so the devs can write code to drive it
in
> >> automation.
> >>
> >> Good find, thanks!
> >
> > Unless I am missing something, chronos is not in the tree at all.
>
> Correct, it isn't in the tree. But there's nothing stopping me from
> getting it in there

Neither are the dependencies. 

If you get it to work, don't forget to create a nice howto documentation as 
from what I found online, the documentation is incomplete and out of date.

--
Joost