From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T10:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: BackgrounDRb 0.2.1 Release

Wondering, anybody on here using this? I know somebody locally who is,
he's having good results with it, but his app runs on an internal
network for a smallish number of users, and I have a client who may
need it set up for a much larger number of users.

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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com

On 11/28/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:
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>         It's that time again friends. skaar has been at it again and has
> greatly improved the stability of the new system. And Ara Howard has
> helped a ton by working with us on the slave library to iron out the
> wrinkles./ The results is a lot nicer backgroundrb for everyone.
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>         I have to say another huge thanks to skaar. He has singlehandedly
> wrote almost all of this new version and many bug fixes. I am very
> glad to have the help as I have too many projects to work on
> currently. Thanks skaar!
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> Get the latest tagged release here:
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> http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/tags/release-0.2.1/
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> = BackgrounDRb Changelog
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> This file contains a summary of changes in particular releases, for a
> detailed change history and tickets, go to:
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>    http://backgroundrb.devjavu.com/projects/backgroundrb/timeline
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> == 0.2.1 (Released November 28, 2006 - r162)
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> This release contains the accumulated fixes and enhancements after the
> dot oh! release. Beside updating BackgrounDRb, we strongly encourage you
> to update to Slave 1.1.0 which has important fixes that greatly improve
> how BackgrounDRb behaves.
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> - Server: Improved logging of server events and exceptions.
> - Server: Change of default DRb protocol to drbunix (domain sockets)
> - Server: Re-add DRb ACL configuration (not needed for drbunix)
> - Server: new_worker race condition fix
> - Server: Jobs entries are now deleted properly when worker exits.
> - Scheduler: Several scheduler fixes. It was pretty much broken in 0.2.0
> - Scheduler: New external schedule definition file
> - Scheduler: do_work semantic changes (README: Special case: :do_work)
> - Rails: disabled rake tasks for start/stop/restart for now.
> - Rails: disabled Rails unit test in worker generator
> - Documentation: Deprecation of TODO file, items are in trac now.
> - Documentation: CronTrigger documentation
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> == 0.2.0 (Released October 30, 2006 - r105)
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> Initial release of BackgrounDRb rewrite. This was is also the first
> versioned release. The README contains the best overview the the new
> architecture. This is the baseline release.
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> -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
> -- Lead Rails Evangelist
> -- ez@engineyard.com
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> -- (866) 518-YARD (9273)
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