Have you looked at JBoss jBPM? http://www.jboss.com/products/jbpm/
What we want for our workflow is an independent service that we can setup workflow rules and have moksha simply update the service when a user completes a task.
----- "Seth Vidal" skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:
Yesterday at the phone call for fedora community I was asked to look
at
various free python workflow modules - I found 3 that seemed likely/reasonable and wrote a brief bit about them based on the
available
info and a perusal of their source.
goflow - django based - free -not helpful for moksha other than to
steal
code from - but it seems to be fairly well developed and on-target
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/GoFlow and http://goflow.free.fr/doc/html/overview.html#preface
itools-workflow -document/file based workflow - simple scaffold - expanding it shouldn't be too complicated at all. - gplv3
http://git.hforge.org/?p=itools.git;a=tree;f=workflow;h=a7ac74ccd80d2810b871...
ruffus - mit license http://code.google.com/p/ruffus/ - originally for bioinformatics -
simple
structure - might be a bit too simple... - has no mechanism for
remote
communication currently... - could be good - lots of room to amqp
this -
could be bad - no structure to allow for it.
Goflow seems the best from a target standpoint but I think porting
it over
to a tg2-infrastructure would be a fair bit of work.
itools is extremely simple and is more or less a document/file
state
machine.
ruffus has a language and ordering/dependency information to
control
workflow and could be a good place to base from.
I'm a little blurry on what moksha/fcomm's workflow requirements are
- is
it activity or entity based most particularly and does it require
remote
host jobs? I suspect it does require communication to tasks on
other
systems but I figured I'd ask.
There are a number of other workflow modules but the ones I've not mentioned here were:
- not free
- dead projects
- VERY closely tied to a specific queuing/task system normally for
chemical processing or bioinformatics.
-sv
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, John Palmieri wrote:
Have you looked at JBoss jBPM? http://www.jboss.com/products/jbpm/
What we want for our workflow is an independent service that we can setup workflow rules and have moksha simply update the service when a user completes a task.
I was asked to evaluate the python workflow systems. Luke was asked to take a look at jboss's options.
-sv