Re: Judge downtime protection ideas

Suggested logic :

* dpjudge to (somehow) figure out that it was down. 
* Should that happen, all deadlines occurring within 24/36/48 hours of
the affected deadline (some good number - perhaps a GM parameter) bump
up all deadlines from the time the judge went down by that parameter.
* GMs to be notified - they can then manually revise the modified
deadlines if they wish.

Cheers,
Deepak




-----Original Message-----
From: Manus Hand <[email protected]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: [dpjudge] Judge downtime protection ideas
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:42:11 -0600



DPjudgesters --
 
As you guys know (in some cases painfully), the DPjudge doesn't
currently detect the end of an outage, which means that unintentional
CD's (another reason I hate the rule) and player dismissals often happen
when the judge comes back up after it's taken a hit.
 
Well, I was thinking that for the still-in-test next version of the
DPjudge, once floc.net gets back this time, I might try to put in some
downtime protection.  Here's the thoughts, which I'd like comment on:
 
1.  When the job that processes games runs, it will detect when the LAST
time it ran was, and if that time is more than X ago (suggestions for X?
Two hours?  Twelve hours?  How long constitutes an "outage"?), it will
consider an outage to have occurred.
 
2.  For those games being processed in the run just after "an outage has
occurred", if the game would process under CD, or would dismiss any
players for missing the deadline, rather than doing so, the deadline
will be extended automatically to the current date-time plus Y
(suggestions for Y?  One "movement phase deadline" length?)
 
3.  All other games would process as normal.  Question:  is this
insufficient?  Should ALL games get their deadlines extended so that a
game that might happen to have its deadline only an hour after the judge
is restored to service don't get the shaft during an upcoming
processing-run?  Perhaps the treatment should be given to all games
having a deadline during the upcoming 24 hours or anytime before??
 
Comments?
 
Manus




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