Hola Alvaro,
> > Recently our VO users have expressed their interest about receive email
> > notifications when jobs changes to done status. I don't know the easier
>
> A cute idea for a few jobs. With thousands of jobs it quickly turns into
> a spam attack, not just for the users themselves, but in particular for
> the various mail servers that need to process all those nice messages...
>
> > way to implement this for users, to write their own script on UI to
> > check job status, use epilog/prolog attribute on jdl file...
>
> It is possible to write a script that checks the status of submitted jobs
> once in a while, with sensible delays between queries. The script will
> need a valid proxy for the user.
Maybe those users should consider Ganga as job submission framework,
which takes care of status monitoring, among many other things:
http://ganga.web.cern.ch/ganga/
It is used a lot in ATLAS and LHCb, who supply their own extensions;
the Ganga core is VO-neutral.
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