I am not sure if its relevalt to the discussion, but anyway: the GFSG is in the process of discussing an errata process. That should enter public comment around OGF20. That process does not cover how to coordinate implementation versions, but should allow you to manage errata lists in a fairly lightweight process. The process is not yet agreed upon, but I probably can post the draft if there is interest. Cheers, Andre. Quoting [Hrabri Rajic] (May 02 2007):
Minimal completeness and spec stability issues needs to be reconciled. Keeping a 1.1 Errata list and agreeing on a window of time when to switch to 1.1 implementations could be one way to go. That needs to be coordinated with all implementation providers, especially the commercial ones. Lightweight and workable process is what we need.
Touching the subject with Greg Newby and our ADs could be a good idea, after we get an agreement internally.
Taking the name from the IDL spec is probably the way to go.
Hrabri
-----Original Message----- From: Dan.Templeton@Sun.COM [mailto:Dan.Templeton@Sun.COM] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:45 PM To: Rajic, Hrabri Cc: drmaa-wg@ogf.org Subject: Re: [DRMAA-WG] Torque/PBS DRMAA - DRMAA_ERRNO_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED issue
Actually, I think we added this in the IDL spec already, but it's called DRMAA_ERRNO_UNSUPPORTED_ATTRIBUTE. Or something like that.
Daniel
On May 1, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Rajic, Hrabri wrote:
Issue:
In some cases it might be really hard or even impossible to implement some of the mandatory DRMAA attributes. For different DRMS this could vary. We therefore suggest adding a new error code to the specification: DRMAA_ERRNO_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED. This value could be returned by drmaa_set_attribute() and drmaa_set_vector_attribute().
Furthermore, in case of future development of DRMAA, it might be desired to introduce optional routines and therefore DRMAA_ERRNO_NOT_IMPLEMENTED error code could come in handy. One use of such an error code could when using drmaa_control() one tries to request a job state change not feasible in specific DRMS. -------------
This seems like a very good idea. Since it is coming late in the process, I suggest we target the recommendation for DRMAA 1.1 Errata.
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