[GUMP-128] Support federation of gump instances

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Gump3-alpha-7
• Fix Version/s: Gump3-alpha-7
• Component/s: Python-based Gump
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Leo Simons
• Created: 01/May/05 20:36
• Updated: 01/May/05 20:36

Description

As discussed on the mailing list

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/gump-general/200504.mbox/%3c01eb01c53abc$ec929820$[e-mail]%3e

(And before that in other threads as well), it could make sense to incorporate features to make multiple gump instances work together and share results. Another source of ideas on this is Vincent Massol's weblog:

http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/vmassol/

ie

http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/vmassol/archives/001006_distributed_build.html

this is a rather big and complex undertaking. The challenge will be to not impact most of the logic and most of the codebase with these changes.