Jacob Peddicord

It's been a while. Well, in internet years, anyway. I've made a lot of updates to jobservice and jobs-admin in the past few weeks:

• service-level settings works
• sporting a new UI
• speed improvements
• tons of bug fixes

I'll let the video do the talking (click the image):

Shoutout to Matthew Paul Thomas who provided the feedback for this new interface. :)

You can see service-level settings in action in the video. It's shown for apport and ufw. There's been a little confusion as to what this actually is, so here's a fancy diagram:

When you click that shiny "Job Settings" button, a lot of things happen. jobs-admin tells jobservice that settings were requested. jobservice then asks each of the backends if they have any settings on that particular service. Then it goes to SLS, which first looks up an XML file, and then uses that data to parse the actual configuration files. This is all compiled together by jobservice and sent back over DBus to jobs-admin, which renders some GTK widgets with this information. When a setting is changed, jobs-admin sends the changes to jobservice, which sends it back to wherever it came from.

SLS doesn't have anything to do with services themselves, just their configuration. When you start, stop, or look up information on a job, that is all handled by the appropriate backend.

Now, there is a PPA somewhere with these changes to play around with, but I won't link it here (though it isn't hard to find). I'd like to get more things together before there's a call for testing, but I won't prevent anyone from using it.

Also: I upgraded this site to Movable Type 5. Let me know if you notice anything broken. :)