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This page contains some (much) needed improvements and thoughts for the development team.


= Improvements =


 * web
  * standalone webfrontend
   * 'unplug' from ganglia/addons/ dir?
   * main page/cluster selector
  * AJAX frontend
    * job preview pane support: use Grid data binding in Ext
    * archive support
      * archive search window
      * perhaps reuse existing job grid: make it a toggle button
      * try to reuse the same JS code/objects
    * better general graphs support
      * dont display RJ/QJ graph if jobmond not reporting it
    * runningtime: 'live' running clock: reloading no longer needed
  * PHP backend
    * speed up jobstore.php, 1000+ jobs decreases speed significantly
      * possible optimisations: use gmetad interactive port, only grab selected cluster XML

 * jobarchived overhaul
  * support for multiple database backends #14

 * jobmond
  * change polling/updating to use gmetric lifetime: i.e. poll/submit every 60 secs = gmetric with 61 seconds lifetime
  * support GECOS field #41
  * multiple batch systems per cluster #4
  * incremental reporting? requires some sort of stateful protocol perhaps #16
  * rename process argv0 to name daemon

 * Ganglia 3.1 support
  * allow jobmond to run as a gmond module
  * rewrite embedded gmetric to new protocol
  * backwards compatible ? or require 3.1

 * packaging
  * build ExtJS library to only contain the objects we need: saves space and possibly speeds up web 
  * proper .spec and/or debian pkg files? #75

= Enhancement wishlist =

 * use SQLAlchemy for python database access to allow multiple database types