Revision history for Perl module TaskForest

1.09 Sun Apr 27 2008
     Summary:
     
     Two new scripts were added: 'rerun' schedules a job to be rerun, and
     'mark' marks a previously job as Success or Failure.  A new 'chained'
     option was added to the definition of repeat jobs, and a
     '--collapsed' option was added to the status script.

     Details:

     1) The 'rerun' script makes a job available to be rerun, regardless of
        whether or not it ran successfuly.  It does this by renaming the
        job's log files from FF.JJ.* to FF.JJ--Orig_n--.* where n is an
        integer that starts at 1 for the first rerun, and is incremented
        by one at every rerun.

     2) The 'mark' job marks a job as 'Success' or 'Failure', regardless
        of whether or not it ran successfully.  It does this by renaming
        the job rc file from FF.JJ.x to FF.JJ.0 (in the case of Success)
        or FF.JJ.1 (in the case of Failure).  If the job's status is
        already as requested, a warning is printed, and nothing is done.

     3) By default, repeat jobs (those that have the 'every' and 'until'
        options) have only one dependency - their time dependency.  They
        are not dependent on each other.  In retrospect, the correct
        behavior should have been to make the jobs also dependent on each
        other.  Consider the case where a job is to run every hour, but
        for whatever reason, taskforest does not run until half-way
        through the day.  This would cause half of the jobs to run at the
        same time at the first opportunity.  The new 'chained' option
        makes the repeat jobs dependent on each other.

     4) Also related to repeat jobs: the new --collapsed option to the
        status command prevents repeat jobs that are in the 'Waiting'
        state from being displayed.  This is especially useful when you
        have a job scheduled to be run once every minute, and it's only
        8:00 a.m.  You probably wouldn't want to see 960 entries when one
        would suffice. 

1.08 Mon Apr 07 20:52:00 2008
     A couple of the files required for the most recent test case was
     missing from the distribution.  Added those files to the
     distribution.  No code changes are present in this distribution.
     
1.07 Sun Apr 06 20:50:00 2008
     A major bug was fixed in this release. Long-running jobs (that ran for
     longer than the wait time, or longer than the time between two
     invocations of taskforest) were not recognized as such.  This caused
     the jobs to be marked as 'Ready' and not 'Running', causing them to
     be run again.  All users are urged to upgrade to this release and
     make sure to use the current version of the 'run' wrapper.
     
1.06 Fri Apr 04 22:00:00 2008
    - fixed a bunch of minor bugs
      - implement --help functionality
      - added $VERSIONS and pod to every .pm file
      - got rid of extra call to localtime
      - removed the default_timezone command line option
      - got rid of redundant regex match for parens in job name
      - removed unused variable $forest from Family::readFromFile
      - renamed $this_jobs_dependencies to $this_jobs_time_dependencies
    - enhancements
      - refactored Family::readFromFile into smaller functions
      - use croak instead of die
      - Added more detailed info into the pid file
      - Added more test cases
      - Made the Family->display() output prettier
      - Added the StringHandle and StringHandleTier class to
        make testing easier.
    
1.05 Fri Mar 28 22:00:00 2008
    - added more test cases
    - fixed all known bugs
       Family::readFromFile makes a Family no longer current        
       Family::readFromFile now accepts both single and double quotes.  
       getLogDir throws an exception if the mkdir fails            
    - Added a DESIGN document
    
1.04 Sun Mar 23 20:56:00 2008
    - added a lot more documentation to the man page and the code
    - gave files svn:keyword properties for Date and Revision
    
1.03 Sat Mar 22 08:29:00 2008
    - allow '-' within the job_dir, log_dir and family_dir

1.02 Sat Mar 22 07:22:00 2008
    - fixed bug where options weren't being read from the command line properly

1.01 Sat Mar 22 01:05:00 2008
    - added bin files to MANIFEST and fixed test

1.00 Thu Mar 20 20:39:24 2008
    - original version; created by ExtUtils::ModuleMaker 0.51

