A lobby for dynamically joining individual students into shared socket rooms.

Configuration parameters are all currently located near the top of file lobby.py. Parameter names with sample values are shown below.

• targetUsersPerRoom = 4 # Target/optimal # of users for room assignment
• minUsersPerRoom = 2 # Min users for suboptimal room assignment
• maxUsersPerRoom = 5 # Max users per room
• maxWaitTimeForSubOptimalAssignment = 10 # After user waits N seconds, attempt suboptimal assignment
• maxWaitTimeUntilGiveUp = 120 # Max seconds before giving up on assigning user to a room
• maxRoomAgeForNewUsers = 300 # Max room age (sec) after which no longer acccept new users
• fillRoomsUnderTarget = True # Fill any rooms with < target users before creating new room
• overFillRooms = True # For suboptimal assignment, whether to overfill rooms (limited to maxUsersPerRoom)
• urlPrefix = "http://bazaar.lti.cs.cmu.edu/room" # A prefix for the room assignment URL
• roomPrefix = "room" # A prefix for each room number.
• nextRoomNum = 0 # The number after this will be the first room number assigned.

• Download the repo.
• Navigate to the top level of the downloaded repo.
• Enter the following command:
  • docker compose up --build -d