Deployment meeting

There are a few different communities building tools to deploy Dask on various kinds of resource managers:

• dask-jobqueue: @jhamman @guillaumeeb @lesteve
• dask-drmaa: @jakirkham
• dask-kubernetes: @jacobtomlinson @yuvipanda
• dask-yarn: @jcrist

These libraries all depend on and extend the central distributed.deploy.Cluster object within this codebase. All of these communities have identified failings within the current implementations and are considering changing their design. This includes features like the following:

1. More robust adaptive scaling
2. Moving the scheduler to a different node
3. JupyterLab extensions
4. (probably other things I’ve forgotten

I thought it might be useful for this group to meet infrequently and maybe coordinate effort. Is this something that would interest the maintainers listed above? I’m thinking about something like an hour-long video meeting in which we identify a few desired features and share constraints on those features.

[mrocklin]

OK, I propose that we meet this Wednedsay 2018-08-22 at 3pm UTC which is

• 8am in California
• 10am in Texas
• 11am in New York
• 4pm in London
• 5pm in Paris

[mrocklin]

OK, I recommend that those of us who can meet tomorrow at 3pm UTC do so. This is the original time. We can follow up with more discussion in the future if necessary.