[slurm-users] How to contact slurm developers

[Riebs, Andy]

Relu,

There 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.

This 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.

Andy


From: slurm-users [mailto:slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 11:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [slurm-users] How to contact slurm developers

I’ve previously seen code contributed back in that way. See bug 1611 as an example (happened to have looked at that just yesterday).
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On Sep 30, 2020, at 11:29, Relu Patrascu <relu at cs.toronto.edu<mailto:relu at cs.toronto.edu>> wrote:

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.

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.
Relu

On 2020-09-30 11:02, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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.
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On Sep 30, 2020, at 10:57, Relu Patrascu <relu at cs.toronto.edu><mailto:relu at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
Hi all,

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?

Regards,

Relu

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