Notes by Maria
Last update 2009-06-03 (with Gabriele's comments)
Attendance
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Dimitar, Gabriele, Maria (notes), Steve (chairman), Tanya, Vincenzo,
Francesco Giacomini.
Agenda
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1. Status of vomrs and voms-admin development requirement for
user-initiated request for self removal from the VO ( thread re-attached
as discussed at the last (Feb 2009) check-point meeting. (Tanya and
Andrea).
2. Status on voms-admin development for convergence phase I. Discussion
on savannah items listed in: the minutes of the October 2008 workshop.
Most recent available information from voms-admin release status in:
patch #2913 and
All-Hands presentation in May 2009. (Andrea).
3. Report on the FNAL VO Project closure. (Gabriele).
4. CHEP'09 paper. This is the final version of the paper for the
record.
5. VOMS replication status. (Andrea-Steve).
6. A.O.B.
7. Next meeting.
User-initiated request for self removal from the VO
Tanya will open 2 identical savannah bugs in the JRA1 tracker, assigned to
herself and Andrea with the description agreed in our check-point meeting
of last February and estimated delivery date for VOMRS. Vincenzo committed
on behalf of Andrea that voms-admin-server-2.5 will include this feature
(promised code release: June 2009, requested end of certification: September 2009).
The user request will put him/her in suspension until
the VO Admin takes removal action.
ACTION: Tanya
Status on voms-admin development for convergence phase I
The whole convergence is delayed. New dates:
- voms-admin-server-2.5 will correspond to convergence phase I,
hence it will implement the JSPG requirements e.g. AUP re-signing and support for more than 1 certificates,
promised code release: June 2009, requested end of certification: September 2009
- voms-admin-server-2.6 will correspond to convergence phase II,
hence it will implement the additional vomrs functionality (except the CERN HR DB interface)
e.g. VO members' sorting
promised code release: November 2009, requested end of certification: December 2009
- voms-admin-server-2.7 will correspond to convergence phase III,
hence it will implement the CERN HR DB interface, indispensable for LHC experiment VOs,
promised code release: February 2010, requested end of certification: April 2010
Maria expressed worries on continuously moving voms-admin delivery dates into the future,
given that the JSPG-required features were announced at the Helsinki All-Hands' meeting
(June 2007) and they are still not done.
Vincenzo said that due to the move towards 'Product Teams', Dimitar is now
part of their group as development and certification are now becoming one unit.
For a detailed list of features to be implemented in each convergence phase
please check
each bug description in section "VOMRS/Voms-Admin convergence plan".
FNAL VO Services Project closure
Gabriele reported that the project was a coordination activity no more needed as the
products have now reached maturity. Official closing date is in June 2009. The mailing
list privilege-project@fnal.gov will be kept. The FNAL commitment to vomrs remains:
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Subject: The VO Services project is closing - Our commitment to VOMRS does NOT change
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:32:57 -0500
From: Gabriele Garzoglio
To: Maria Dimou-Zacharova
CC: Tanya Levshina
Hi Maria,
you may have heard that the VO Services project is closing. The project
has been coordinating activities on middleware for access authorization
and user registration used by OSG, USCMS, USAtlas, Fermilab RunII
experiments, and other stakeholders. VOMRS was coordinated under this
umbrella.
We close the VO Services project because we believe that we do not need
anymore a project dedicated to coordinating activities across
authorization / registration middleware projects. Individual projects
will maintain their program of work.
This is the case for VOMRS. Tanya will be the project leader and your
contact for any future interactions. As for me, I'll be happy to address
any questions or concerns that you might have, with my Fermilab
Computing Division hat.
I take this occasion to thank you for all your involvement with VOMRS
and in particular for the coordination of the VOMRS and VOMS-admin
convergence.
Best,
Gabriele
CHEP'09 paper on vomrs/voms-admin convergence
The latest version of this paper, submitted to the CHEP'09 editors
is attached to the agenda of this meeting. The Table 1 in Section 5.1
with delivery deadlines is wrong.
Status of CERN-CNAF voms replication
The actions agreed during our December 2008 check-point meeting are not done.
They will be resumed after June 2009 after voms-admin-server-2.5 development
is complete.
ACTION: Andrea
A.O.B.
All agreed a workshop is needed in the autumn - proposed week October
19th.
Next checkpoint meeting July 9th @ 4pm CEST.