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    <p>Makes sense guys, much appreciated. Will try.</p>
    <p>Relu<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-09-30 11:42, Riebs, Andy wrote:<br>
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            are a number of ways to run an open source project. In the
            case of Slurm, the code is managed by SchedMD. As a rule,
            one presumes that they have plenty on their plate, and
            little time to respond to the mailing list. Hence the
            suggestion that one get a support contract to get their
            attention. I’m not complaining, it’s just the way it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            mailing list is handled 99% by users like you and me. If
            you’ve got a great idea, particularly if you have an
            implementation, one of the best ways to handle it is to
            describe your innovation here, asking for feedback if you
            choose, and then offer the patch here on the mailing list
            or, as Ryan suggests, post it in the Bugzilla.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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                lang="EN-US"> slurm-users
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:slurm-users-bounces@lists.schedmd.com">mailto:slurm-users-bounces@lists.schedmd.com</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ryan Novosielski<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2020 11:35 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Slurm User Community List
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com"><slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [slurm-users] How to contact slurm
                developers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I’ve
          previously seen code contributed back in that way. See bug
          1611 as an example (happened to have looked at that just
          yesterday). <o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On Sep 30,
              2020, at 11:29, Relu Patrascu <<a
                href="mailto:relu@cs.toronto.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">relu@cs.toronto.edu</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Ryan, I'll try the bugs site.
                And indeed, one person in our organization has already
                said "let's pay for support, maybe they'll listen." :)
                It's a little bit funny to me that we don't actually
                need support, but get it hoping that they might consider
                adding a feature which we think would benefit everyone.
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              <p class="MsoNormal">We have actually modified the code on
                both v 19 and 20 to do what we would like, preemption
                within the same QOS, but we think that the community
                would benefit from this feature, hence our request to
                have it in the release version.<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">Relu<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">On 2020-09-30 11:02, Ryan Novosielski
                wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Depends
                on the issue I think, but the bugs site is often a way
                to request enhancements, etc. Of course, requests coming
                from an entity with a support contact carry more
                weight. <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  ||_// the State     |         Ryan Novosielski - <a
                    href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a><br>
                  || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922
                  (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus<br>
                  ||  \\    of NJ     | Office of Advanced Research
                  Computing - MSB C630, Newark<br>
                      `'<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On
                    Sep 30, 2020, at 10:57, Relu Patrascu
                    <a href="mailto:relu@cs.toronto.edu"
                      moz-do-not-send="true"><relu@cs.toronto.edu></a>
                    wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                      style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"></span>Hi
                    all,<br>
                    <br>
                    I posted recently on this mailing list a feature
                    request and got no reply from the developers. Is
                    there a better way to contact the slurm developers
                    or we should just accept that they are not
                    interested in community feedback?<br>
                    <br>
                    Regards,<br>
                    <br>
                    Relu<br>
                    <br>
                    <o:p></o:p></p>
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