EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting

Name: EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting
Start: 2010-12-15T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2010-12-15T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 15 Dec 2010, 10:30 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Description

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=e8eteDvBvDataDa9I8
- Phone Bridge
ID: 62440
- Phone Bridges Numbers
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/telephone.jsp

NOTE: THE MEETING IS RECORDED (for minutes-taking only purposes, then the files are deleted)

- 10:30 → 10:40
  
  Action List Review 10m
  
  Emi Sa2 Action List
- 10:40 → 11:10
  Task Reports and Progress 30m
  
  In this first meeting we will discuss on who is working on which task(s).
  - TSA2.1 – Work Package coordination 5m
    
    - Completed the quarterly report. Thanks for the KPIs. - Prepared the SA2 wiki page http://bit.ly/emisa2 as front window where all we have for others to see and get is presented - Asked to create a sa-announce mailing list. - Main aim is to prepare for initial QA reports and analyse them. - GGUS for Testbeds and tools: "EMI Testbeds" and "EMI QA Tools". Friendly tell that we can only receive via GGUS in order to provide better support and account it. + Next Step - Any issue for PEB?
    
    SA2 Internal Wiki
    
    Sa2 Meetings
  - TSA2.2 – Quality Assurance Process Definition and Monitoring 5m
    
    + Status and Progress Mainly working on guidelines after receiving feedback from SA1. + Issues to Discuss Michele's comments on release guidelines, but he won't be present :-( + Steps Next Week Try to finish SQAP + Release criteria.
  - TSA2.3 – Metrics and KPIs Definition and Reporting 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - Finished Bug State Transition timestamps in XSD and gLite XML example, named ChangeStatusTimestamps. This is fully validated using xmllint. Important for EMT to calculate the number of untouched open bugs metric and turnaround time in getting to fixed state. - Updated Metrics Guidelines to include complete XML example and connection between XSDs/XMLs. - SA2.3 Metric Report meeting on Thursday. Twiki page with table should help Lars define report structure. - Feedback obtained from Fabio regarding FindBugs optional configuration. - Assessed dCache bug-tracking XML prototype with feedback to Christian. + Issues to Discuss
  - TSA2.4 – Tools and Repositories Selection, Maintenance and Integration 5m
    
    + Status and Progress ############ NEW ETICS RELEASE: ETICS 3.3 Thursday 16 December Features: - New application logo. - New pending status that allows to know how many jobs there are in the queue - Cancel job option added to the submission tab - Locking changes: now it is possible to lock without specifying a parent configuration. In this case, there are not items inherited. - Support for history of modules and configurations - CSS fixes for Chrome and Firefox - Bug fixes in the web service - Bug fixes in the web application - Bug fixes and improvements in SLOCCount, JDepend and Findbugs plugins - Internal improvements for increasing performance and reliability. ############ - SA2.2.1 Deliverable completed - Waiting for reviews - ETICS 3.3 Release preparation and testing - ETICS client 1.5.0 testing - Christmas ETICS banner - ETICS and EMI Support - Vincenzo testsuite support - Clock drift investigation - Elisabetta build support - CCCC output investigation - SunJDK vs OpenJDK discussion - Pedro DM build and integration support - EMI - EMT - Meeting with Cristina - EMI_R_0 error debugging - Infrastructure - External configurations and packages added for the EMT - Migration of the 50% of the ETICS infrastructure to CERN virtualization service - New sl5_x86_64_EPEL run as root available in the pool - Working on deb5_x86_64 with Squeeze + Issues to Discuss + Steps Next Week From next week most of the ETICS team is on Holiday. Support well be very limited.
  - TSA2.5 – QA Implementation Review and Support 5m
  - TSA2.6 – Testbeds Setup, Maintenance and Coordination 5m
    
    + Status and Progress CNAF: Deliverable DS2.4: Last minute "formal" problem about dCache contribution to Testbed. Removed the "kindly offerred " from parts mentioning dCache, cause DESY in mentioned among SA2.6 partners, though notice that DESY is among SA2.6 participant at "261611 EMI - Workplan table - 2010-06-24 15:14 - Page 23 of 50"but with no person months at following page "261611 EMI - Workplan table 2010-06-24 15:14 - Page 24 of 50". At the END decided with Florida to send it anyway, and will discuss the issue once Patrick is back from Holiday. working on the Large Scale Testbed twiki. Italian EMI meeting. contacted EGI operations people, about the Large Scale testbed model agreed with Balasz. Waiting for feedback. MSA22: APPROVED resources administration CERN: GGUS tkt support on gridftp resources publication for FTS service in the testbed. JUELICH: worked on hardware outage due to a yet undetermined reason on Wednesday afternoon. Operation appeared normal until Thursday morning, when I discovered and fixed the problem. Noone was affected by this outage. DESY: no reports CESNET: no reports + Issues to Discuss - Large Scale Testbed in place MILESTONE : EMI: Critically delayed milestones as of 14/12/10. Can we ask to postpone this milestone? We do not even have an EMI 0 release at the moment! - More discussion with some developers about the release guidelines: need to clarify who is responsible for integration testing. - KPI definition is cryptic. Difficult to produce automatic report for reliability defined as "availability - downtime not depending on SA2" + Steps Next Week - work on Large Scale ... MSA2.3 - Replica of testers.emi-eu.emi VOMS
- 11:10 → 11:30
  Issue and Topics to Discuss 20m
  - AOB