Roadmap

Maintainance:

• Release on the 1st Wednesday of each month.

Prioritized list of Toil projects

Implementation Time estimates are in engineering days and very back-of-the-envelope.

1. 🚧WIP More efficient kubernetes support
   • One of:
     • Host-path caching
     • Toil-integrated within-pod scheduler
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
2. 🎉DONE More robust Kubernetes support
   • Handle Kubernetes communication timeouts without restarting the leader
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
3. 🎉DONE Rework SingleMachineBarchSystem to eliminate thread limit exhaustion issues; Reduce thread usage in singleMachine mode
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
4. CWL 1.1+ Support
   • 13 failing CWL 1.1 conformance tests currently
   • Conditional support (CWL 1.2)
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
5. Move away from mesos before/as Ubuntu 16.04 goes out of support
   • probably in favor of auto-deployed Kubernetes somehow
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
6. Running in-house VG WDL workflows
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
7. WDL compliance test suite
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
8. Increase test coverage
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
9. Automatic idle worker termination and fixes to ignored nodes.
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
10. Updates on caching (should we enable by default?).
    • Time estimate: not scoped yet
11. Incorporate a cactus integration test to better support cactus
    • Time estimate: not scoped yet
12. Improved ease of debugging
    • This is more of an ongoing task than clearly defined project.
    • Adjust log levels based on experience.
    • Time estimate: not scoped yet
13. More/better HPC Queueing System Support
    • Time estimate: not scoped yet

Contributions welcome

1. Google Job Store Support
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
2. Update boto libraries to boto3
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
3. Move from simpleDB to a better supported service
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
4. More scalable Kubernetes support
   • moving to watches
   • handling more pods in queue than we can loop over before our continue tokens expire
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
5. Restart/recovery improvements
   • Changing CWL parameters
   • Managing a failed task that cannot be recovered in a large pipeline
   • Checkpointing
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
6. Better support for heterogeneous tasks (e.g. customizing disk size per instance type, (maybe) FPGA support for DRAGEN).
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
7. AWS custom/multi security group support
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet
8. AWS multi-zone support
   • Time estimate: not scoped yet