[Swift-devel] feature request

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:36 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> On 4/15/09 2:22 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:05 -0500, Glen Hocky wrote:
> >> The problem with the first method was that the number of jobs, i.e. 
> >> score increased too slowly. In that configuration, i believe that the 
> >> behavior was 1 or 2 coasters were submitted to a single site and none to 
> >> the others and then it just stayed that way for a long time.
> > 
> > The behavior you mention is contrary to what should be happening, in
> > that all sites should have had 2 swift jobs submitted to.
> > 
> > It is possible that you've made the observation while coasters were not
> > working properly on certain sites. The solution to that is not to
> > fundamentally re-engineer the way swift submission works, but to make
> > coasters run properly on those sites.
> 
> I'd like to ask Zhao to do some of this testing, with OOPS on Ranger and 
> other TG and OSG sites, as prep for getting the tools in broader use in 
> the OOPS group.

If it results in clear and specific problem reports, I'd be happy with
it. If, however, it will mostly produce "swift doesn't work" type of
reports, then we'd better divert the effort towards other things.