globus/globus-compute

funcX task life-cycle

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#510 opened on Jun 10, 2021

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

This is more of a technical problem that bothers us as developers than users, but having a well-defined task life-cycle would help explain to users what is going on with their functions.

Describe the solution you'd like Create a state-flow diagram that captures the states the function goes through on the web-service, forwarder, and endpoint. As a bonus, it would be good to extend this diagram to support retries.

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Review the existing task lifecycle in the codebase, particularly in the web service, forwarder, and endpoint components. Create a state flow diagram based on the current implementation. Optionally, extend to include retry states.
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