Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm
In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this
caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on
going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work).
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""This module contains the Request Model."""
__authors__ = [
'"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
'"Lennard de Rijk" <ljvderijk@gmail.com>',
]
from google.appengine.ext import db
from django.utils.translation import ugettext
import soc.models.user
import soc.models.group
class Request(soc.models.linkable.Linkable):
"""A request is made to allow a person to create a new Role entity.
"""
role = db.StringProperty(required=True)
role.help_text = ugettext(
'This should be the type of the role that is requested')
role_verbose = db.StringProperty(required=True)
role_verbose.help_text = ugettext(
'This should be the verbose name of the role that is in this request')
# property that determines the status of the request
# new : new Request
# group_accepted : The group has accepted this request
# completed : This request has been handled either following a creation of
# the role entity
# rejected : This request has been rejected by either the user or the group
# ignored : The request has been ignored by the group and will not give
# the user access to create the role
status = db.StringProperty(required=True, default='new',
choices=['new', 'group_accepted', 'completed', 'rejected','ignored'])
status.help_text = ugettext('Shows the status of the request')
#: DateTime when the request was created
created_on = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)