WP4 phone conference, 7/11/2001

(ZIB sent a report by mail)

Review of actions

3: Jan reported that Maite decided last week to go for the core-RPM list. Keep open.
14: no news. Leave open
17: no news
18: (mail from Thomas) got accounts on a Condor pool at NIKHEF. Looked a bit at the Condor commands, but didn’t yet go into details (e.g. information providers).
37: (mail from Thomas) Sorry, but didn’t manage so far.
39: no news
40: need survey Scada/PVSS interfaces first. Deadline changed to end of January.
42: no update. Nothing from other institutes. Still open.
43: (mail from Thomas) Fixed several bugs.
45: D4.2 accepted. Closed
46: D4.2 accepted. Closed
47: No objections to the proposal. Jan thought short release cycles was useful for bug-fixes. Olof pointed out that we also have to provide a plan for what we are going to deliver for new components in each release. Lex: we have no basic problems with the proposal. It gives opportunities to introduce bugfixes etc. (Thomas via e-mail) Looks fine, but we need an internal plan for what each task has to provide for each release (step). This should be discussed at the workshop, I think. Action closed

Lord: has set-up a fault tolerance system with cooling and heating control for CPU with a connected XML configuration file. Would now like to start to use the low-level configuration API but a C API is missing. Lord had some suggestions how they could wrap it around the existing perl API. However, it was agreed a C API could be of general interest so that Lord should first send a mail to Lionel to check what the plans were.
Lex: object method architecture. Preparing configuration management workshop.
Jan: rather quite. Not many new (LCFG) bugs reported.
German: looking to find a good way to tackle the outstanding open questions in the architecture. We shouldn’t put new things into the architecture but rather focus on finding agreements on the outstanding issues.
Olof: circulated monitoring task plan last week. It should be used by the other tasks as template for their own development plans, which have to be sent in one week before the WP4 November workshop at the latest. à New Action
Olof: D4.2 was accepted at PTB last week. We now need to finalize the internal architecture discussions. à New Action

Olof opened a set of short term actions related with the global release-2 planning ( see http://cern.ch/hep-proj-grid-fabric/plans/PM21/plans.htm ):

Action on all task leaders (Lionel, Lord, Bernd/Olof, German, Florian, David): write a draft Release 2 subsystem development plan. The plan should follow the template circulated by Olof last week (http://cern.ch/hep-proj-grid-fabric/Tasks/monitoring/DataGrid-04-TED-0125-1-0.pdf ). The deadline is 21/11/2001 (one week before the WP4 November workshop). The plan should be mailed to Olof (and the rest of the WP4).
Action on Olof and German: write a global specification for Release-2. A draft should be circulated to WP4 end of next week.
Action on Olof to review available resources in the partner institutes for next year. The deadline is by the WP4 November workshop.
Action on German to initiate and drive the second iteration on the open issues in the architecture. The deadline is the WP4 November workshop.