Thanks Anunnaki for starting the ball rolling and some suggestions, and I now see someone has recently replied to you.
I was somewhat horrified when I first read this post and needed confirmation that I had interpreted it correctly. Having spent a bit of time thinking about it I had 2 suggestions, one of which I won't mention here for fear of getting banned. :)
I understand the need to address the problems arising from long stretches of bad weather, and whatever approach is taken more monitoring and administration will be involved.
With the current suggestion it is imperative that for downloaded data the originator of the job scans it asap and notes the number of frames that need replacing. Resubmit a new job to collect the replacement data immediately or on a wait and see basis?
What I assume people do is occasionally look at the job queue to see how their jobs and others are progressing. Without a rewrite I cannot see how that queue will be able to show accurate information on longer jobs with the suggested change. There could be more than one job for retakes and the job queue does not display the submission notes. At present the replacement subs are submitted in a new job where progress can be easily seen.
My suggestion. Submit new jobs in small chunks except if it is just for a few hours. If you know that most of the data for a short job of yours has been collected but some time has elapsed since then, then you need to contact Roboscopes.
For longer jobs submit a string of short ones each of 1,2 or possibly 3 hours maximum. If the job is both broadband and narrowband then best split it by filter type. Many already do this anyway. At the time of entering these smaller jobs there is a good chance that the job numbers will be consecutive keeping them grouped together in the queue. In the target description, as was done with mosaics, add a sequence number to make it clearer to others.
No changes required except in how users submit longer jobs.
Hopefully my last word on this unless provoked into responding. :)
Cheers and CS,
The old grump.