PTB Meeting

Tuesday 28 Sept 2010, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Teleconference

PTB meeting

Starting Time: 28 SEptember, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Europe/Zurich
Duration: 2:00

 

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Proposed agenda:
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1) Approval of previous meeting notes, follow up on actions (10 minutes)

 

2) 2nd iteration on the technical objectives of DNA1.3.1 (1 hour)

* addressing questions posted by Massimo

* updates in view of the AAI workshop outcome

* updates due to better understanding of infra area

 

3) SAGA Resource discovery proposal (30 minutes)

 

4) Configuration of EMI services, clients  (20 minutes)

 

5) AoB

* Architecture F2F in Geneva

* New Compute area leader

PTB regular meeting Present: Morris, Massimo, Laurence, John, Patrick, Marco Cecchi, Balazs (notes) 1) AoB * Architecture F2F in Geneva Meeting was confirmed: 12-13 October, CERN. Indico page was created: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=108840 * New Compute area leader Marco Cecchi was welcomed as the new compute area leader. 2) Approval of previous meeting notes, Meeting notes of 3.8.2010, 4.8.2010 and 14.9.2010 will become automatically approved Tomorrow 6:00 unless some objection is raised on the ptb list. This is the last time for such an exceptional meeting notes approval. 3) follow up on actions While the action items from the previous meetings were checked, it turned out that some of the PTB decisions concerning the creation of task forces were not properly understood and implemented. Therefore, a check of development task forces are needed and scheduled for the next PTB meeting (after the architecture F2F) 4) Configuration of EMI services, clients Balazs introduced the topic, whether EMI should define/develop a common configuration layer for its services. Patrick informed PTB about his data area survey: developers do not insist on YAIM (or a common layer) while there was a strong request for YAIM comming from EGI site admins. Laurence: explains his view that EGI-Inspire should be responsible for the config layer. Laurence thinks that independent products delivered by the EMI product teams can not be expected to have the same "native" configuration mechanism. Everything on top of that layer rather belongs to "operation" task of EGI. Everyone shares Laurence view. PTB agreement: EMI will only provide configuration guidelines as part of its quality assurance and considers a higher level configuration layer, such as YAIM, out of scope, those configuration layers better fit to EGI-Inspire. The configuration guidelines should be researched and created by the SA2 team. 5) 2nd iteration on the technical objectives of DNA1.3.1 The PTB worked on the objectives of the DNA1.3.1. The 2nd iteration was not completed, work will be continued via email. PTB members are encouraged to check again the objectives table so that inconsistencies are corrected. Balazs plans to release the DNA1.3.1 for internal project review latest next week Monday. New versions of the document will be announced on the PTBV list as soon as those are available. 3) SAGA Resource discovery proposal not discussed due to lack of time. ACTION: -------- * John and/or Laurence book a room for the F2F * Balazs arranges CERN visitor cards F2F * Morris: add the missing meeting to the indico * Morris to start the process of "populating" the accounting task force * Balazs to inform the PEB and directly the SA2 leader about the "configuration" agreement of PTB. * Laurence/Morris to create a single infra area wiki page, remove unnecessary overlap. Keep Laurence page. * PTB to review task forces at the next PTB meeting after the F2F * area leaders are asked to prepare an "architecture" sketch of their area components latest by the F2F.