gearman -- given two instances with shared nodes in gearman -- can a jenkins job in the instance use nodes without posting to gearman

[Rinaldo DiGiorgio]

Hi,

  I tried to use gearman to share some nodes and was unable to have a number of nodes used by either Jenkins instance.  Is it the case that to use the nodes you need to use the API and post to gearman? This is not the model I am looking for but perhaps someone has figured out how to do this.  It is very odd that there is no easy way to inject your own allocation strategy with a class or script that can be called to return the status of a node or a list of nodes.  Any suggestions.

Rinaldo