3rd Quattor Workshop

Name: 3rd Quattor Workshop
Start: 2007-03-12T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2007-03-13T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Trinity College Dublin

12 Mar 2007, 09:00 → 13 Mar 2007, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Large Conference Room, O'Reilly Institute (Trinity College Dublin)

Large Conference Room, O'Reilly Institute

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

Stephen Childs (Unknown)

Description

This workshop brings together developers and advanced users of Quattor. The aim is to share expereiences and to discuss the roadmap for Quattor development.

Participants

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Monday 12 March
- Mon 12 Mar
- Tue 13 Mar
- 09:00 → 10:45
  Introduction
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome 10m
    
    Speaker: Dr Brian Coghlan (Trinity College Dublin)
  - 09:10
    Site reports 1h 30m
    
    (Short) reports from Quattor sites: CERN, DESY, LAL/GRID, TCD/Grid-Ireland, IIHE/BEGrid, INFN-CNAF, NIKHEF, UAM, ...
    
    Slides
    
    20070312_-_CNAF-T1_Quattor.pdf
    
    20070312_-_CNAF-T1_Quattor.ppt
    
    BEgrid status
    
    GRIF_Site_Report.ppt.pdf
    
    GRIF_Site_Report.ppt.ppt
    
    quattor-cern-site-status-03-07.odp
    
    quattor-cern-site-status-03-07.pdf
    
    uam-m3y2007.pdf
- 10:45 → 11:05
  
  Coffee 20m
- 11:05 → 12:30
  Quattor developments
  - 11:05
    
    Pan compiler update 20m
    
    Progress of Java implementation, feature changes, ...
    
    Speaker: Cal Loomis (Laboratoire de l''Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL) (IN2P3) (LAL))
  - 11:25
    
    CDB update 10m
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN-IT/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
  - 11:35
    
    SCDB Status 10m
    
    Slides
  - 11:45
    
    Core modules update 30m
    
    Status of developments on core modules maintained at CERN
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN-IT/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 15:15
  Quattor developments (cont)
  - 13:45
    
    QWG templates update 30m
    
    Speaker: Michel Jouvin (Unknown)
    
    Slides
  - 14:15
    
    gLite configuration 30m
    
    Update on configuration of gLite components, with emphasis on WMS.
    
    Speaker: Shkelzen Rugovac
    
    Slides
  - 14:45
    
    Managing Xen with Quattor 30m
    
    In this talk, I will describe the development of the ncm-xen component for managing the configuration of Xen virtual machines. I will cover pypxeboot, a new tool for simulating PXE booting for guest VMs and describe the functionality of ncm-xen itself. Feedback welcome!
    
    Speaker: Stephen Childs (Unknown)
    
    Slides
- 15:15 → 15:35
  
  Coffee 20m
  
  Coffee
- 15:40 → 17:10
  AII update and release issues
  - 15:40
    
    AII update 30m
    
    Latest developments on AII, discussion of change requests.
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Munoz Mejias (Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  - 16:10
    
    Release issues 30m
    
    Quattor 1.3. Automated release process. Discussion.
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN-IT/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
  - 16:40
    
    ncm-accesscontrol replacement 20m
Tuesday 13 March
- Mon 12 Mar
- Tue 13 Mar
- 08:30 → 10:15
  Progress review
  
  Discuss recent developments (esp. introduction of
  namespaces). Review open bugs in Savannah. Plan future
  development.
  - 08:40
    
    Review open Savannah bugs 1h
    
    We will go through the list of bugs in Savannah, and discuss whether they are assigned to the right person, and decide on their priority.
  - 09:40
    
    Documentation 30m
    
    There has been some progress on documentation since the last workshop. In particular, there is now an infrastructure in place for automatically generating component documentation from CVS. We will discuss this, the release page on the wiki and other forms of documentation and try to identify areas for improvement.
- 10:40 → 12:25
  Core tools and components
  - 10:40
    
    NCM Discussion 30m
    
    Discussion of the operation of ncm-ncd and ncm-cdispd, in particular how dependencies between components are handled.
  - 11:10
    
    Making it easier to write components 30m
    
    In this session, we will discuss options for improving the experience of the component writer. This could potentially include improvements to CCM libraries to ease the handling of configuration trees in Perl, discussion of libraries currently in use and suggestions for new ones, ...
  - 11:40
    
    Best practice when writing components 30m
    
    There has been some discussion of coding style on the mailing list. In this session, we will open up this can of worms! Hints and tips from experienced component writers would be welcome, and we will also examine the existing guidelines and see if they need to be updated.
- 12:30 → 13:45
  
  Lunch 1h 15m
- 13:45 → 15:45
  Wrap-up
  - 13:45
    
    CDB in-depth discussion 2h
  - 13:45
    
    QWG in-depth discussion 2h
    
    Handling of errata/updates, ...