WP4 phone conference, 11/9/2002

Review of actions

13, 17, 18, 58: no update
40: working on interface for the configuration. Olof pointed out that it is important that the FT task publishes their public interfaces (actuator and dispatcher) very soon. Helge supported this and asked for having at least a preliminary draft of the interfaces. Lord promised to speed up the definition of the interfaces and put them in CVS by first week of October.
74: Thomas expected to receive some code from WP1. He will contact them again.
76: not yet released in CVS because code cleaning. Olof said it is important to try to stick to the deadline of 15^th of September.

LCFG documentation: Lex is discussing with German and Enrico how to best organise the documentation. Minimal documentation already exists for release 2.
LCFGng (German):

Need to be clarified how to use the same server for both RH6 and Rh7 clients.
Must test LCFGng RH7.2 version here at CERN.
Maite wonders which RH7.2 distribution we are using? CERN distribution (RH7.2.1). Do we need to discuss this with the rest of EDG? Action on Olof to bring up the issue at the weekly WP mgrs meeting.

Local disk “footprint” discussions in Budapest. How can we interface the batch schedulers with the WP2 daemon? Can we define the resource in LSF? Thomas said that this may depend on the scheduler. Action on Thomas: to check if this is possible with the Maui scheduler.
Action on Olof: to follow up RH7.2 distribution in EDG.
Action on German: fix failing installation step of autobuild for the installation task

PPARC (Lex): Lex asked if it would be useful if he would come to CERN for a few days before the end of the year. German said that this was a good idea and the best would be if Lex could come already before the end of September or early October to help with LCFGng deployment. Lex agreed with coming the first week of October and he will check if this is possible.
INFN (Enrico):

Enrico said that he has just finished the kickstart file generator. The first version will be put in CVS this afternoon. There are still a few problems/limitations due to bugs in Anaconda.
Christina will come back in October to help (most probably).
Massimo is working on the “auth” component problems.

Successfully combined the Maui scheduler with the RTCS.
Working on releasing the new code.
Maite noted that two new Globus versions have been released since the last test of the RMS software. The tests will need to be repeated.

KIP (Lord): wants to use GPL licensed software. The software provides an XMLWebGUI based on tomcat, for changing XML configuration.
CERN (Olof):

Monitoring repository server is ready and Sylvain is in the process of integrating it with the new TCP transport.
Planning for new configuration client developments and software package management is progressing.

Maite: wants to check the autobuild status. The autobuild is now also running on the CVS HEAD version. She pointed out that there are a few problems with the last tagged version:

Warnings with LCAS. Maite follows this up with Martijn and Yannick.
Make failure with installation (LCFG). German will follow this up. Action on German.

Maite: quality group is now reviewing the existing quality documents. There are some overlaps between the documents and the group will try to merge/combine some of the documents into a consistent set of guidelines. Maite intends to ask two or three WP4 collaborators to help reviewing the first draft of the new documents and the final draft will be distributed to the WP4 list for comments. German said that the autobuild process needs to be further discussed.