CDR Tickets

In order to better manage CDR systems on stage and production and reduce the
burden on CBIIT and the time delays of creating issues for multiple teams to
work on, we can add more web based management capabilities to the CDR.

Here are a number of possible candidates for such capabilities:

  1. Cron like program for job scheduling.
  
     We would need the ability to edit the crontab file using a web
     interface, enabling us to change job schedules at will without
     requiring assistance from a systems administrator to make a change
     and then again to change it back again.

     There are some open source cron implementations that might only
     need a web interface with appropriate security controls to edit the
     crontab file.

  2. Ability to run CheckDtds, RefreshManifest, and possibly other
     utilities.

     This might be subsumed under the cron facility or implemented as a
     separate, interactive interface..

  3. Ability to pause and resume, or stop and fail publishing jobs.

     If someone is monitoring publishing, it would be useful to be able
     to complete any documents in process and then pause the job upon
     receipt of some kind of signal from the user.  The user might
     inspect outputs or log files and then either resume the job or kill
     it.

     This will require changes to the cdrpub.py script plus a web
     interface to communicate the commands to it.

A first step in implementing these capabilities is to refine the
requirements and add any others that we can think of. Then we can
progress to design.

[implement scheduler (select framework), CDR server/C++ or as a service/sys software package, python scripts, existing publish service]