[slurm-users] How to contact slurm developers

[Relu Patrascu]

Makes sense guys, much appreciated. Will try.

Relu

On 2020-09-30 11:42, Riebs, Andy wrote:
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> 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
> *To:* Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> *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:
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>     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
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>     On 2020-09-30 11:02, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>         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:
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>             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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