PTB Meeting

Tuesday 25 Jan 2011, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Teleconference

PTB meeting, 14:00-16:00, 25 January, 2011 Calling details: skype test conferencing service in Lund (call mailmagnes in skype) Proposed agenda: ---------------- - Approval of previous meeting notes, follow up on actions - Short recap of previous meeting (PTB plans for 2011) - news from last week EGI-TCB - EMI Year 1 agreements: quick status check - Report from area leaders (a new standing agenda item, no need to prepare anything yet) - quick check on development PTs and task forces - Platforms: a PTB proposal??? - AoB -- PTB in Vilnius? -- Agreed way to report on "agreements"?

Regular PTB meeting, 14:10-16:12, 25 January 2011
Present:  Morris, Marco, Laurence, John, Patrick, Balazs (notes)

I)  Approval of previous meeting notes, follow up on actions

The notes from 14.12.2010 and 11.01.2011 are approved.

Actions from previous meeting:

* Morris to create an initial wiki page for the EMI-UI task force.

** done, wiki page was created under integration task, see https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EMIJRA1T7TASKFORCEUI

* Patrick and Laurence to provide details for the infra and data area agreement groups.

** Patrick sent the following info for the missing "Data accounting record":
-coordinator: Jon Kerr Nilsen
-group: Paul Millar, Riccardo Zappi, Zsolt Molnar, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, Henrik Thostrup Jensen (external contributer)
-wiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/StorageAccounting
-communication: emi-jra1-data-sar@eu-emi.eu
-status: Finalize storage accounting record definition
-expected date: 31 January 2011

The compute area accounting record group/info was missing. Acceptin Laurence's suggestion Marco was asked to look after and bootstrap the compute accounting agreement group. Morris proposed that John Gordon should be kept in the loop (group member?)

* Balazs initiates a survey to find out the work needed to support a list of specific platforms provide missing info for agreements:

** done. The doodle has been posted and filled: http://doodle.com/m5bmwsdn2vxxntt4

* Balazs to raise the topic of preparation for the first year project review at the next PEB.

**done. More info about the EMI project review preparation will follow after the February  PEB meeting


II)  Short recap of previous meeting (PTB plans for 2011)

Balazs repeated the PTB 2011 plans based on the meeting notes from 11.01.2011

The timing of the workplan deliverables surfaced as an issue. To be reported to the PO. John felt that a larger gap than one month would be needed between the high level plan and the area workplans. Balazs worried that it would not be possible to work both on EMI-1 release and the EMI-2 planning.

III)  news from last week EGI-TCB

Balazs summarized what happened at the last week EGI-TCB (agenda page with notes, presentations attached https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=268)

Among others, the command line parameter inventory (due in March), the UMD certification request, the WMS discussion was mentioned. The EMI vs. UMD release cycle was also mentioned.

Patrick commented that EMI PTs should only be faced with EMI certification. Whatever certification EGI/UMD wants from us (the PTs), should be part of the EMI certification.


IV) EMI Year 1 agreements and consolidation plans: quick status check

PTB went through the Year-1  agreement and consolidation plans. In general, the progress looks ok.


V)  Report from area leaders (a new standing agenda item, no need to prepare anything yet)

Balazs informed the PTB that from the next meeting a standing agenda item "area reports" will be introduced. Area leaders are expected to use this slot to broadcast important strategic/design/architecture related ongoing work or plans. This is also the place to report about problems, technical conflicts, etc.


VI) quick check on development PTs and task forces

due to lack of time the check of the TFs was postponed to next meeting

Nevertheless the virtualization and cloud task forces status was discussed.
Due to their largely overlaping manpower and recent departure of virtualization task force leader the PTB decided to merge the two groups.
The new merged "virtualization & clouds" TF will inherit the leadership from the previous cloud task force. The task force should update its mandate and define some tangible outcome.


VII) Platforms: a PTB proposal???

there was no time for discussion.


VIII) AoB

- PTB in Vilnius?

Everybody thinks if PTB needs a f2f meeting in Vilnius.

- Howto report on "agreements"?

EMI tech notes (no template) should be prepared for every agreement and after PTB approval the agreements will be publicized i.e. towards EGI.


- Next meeting is on 15 February, three weeks from now. It is because there'll be PEB F2F two weeks from now.

- Marco wanted to raised the issue of the glite-cluster component at 16:10 just when we were about to close the meeting. Discussion moved to next meeting.



ACTIONS
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* Marco: bootstrap the compute accounting agreement group by providing the info:

Compute Accounting Record agreement:
coordinator:
group: (one member from each CE and accouting PTs)
wiki:
communication:
status:
expected date:

* Balazs: communicate possible shift of work plan deliverables due to insufficient gap between DNA1.3.x and area plan deliverables and due to overlap of EMI-1 release work and workplan preparation.

* Morris: follow up on the virtualization & cloud task force merger, inform the involved people, update the wiki (remove obsolete info/group), report on the revised mandate on the next meeting

* Balazs: Clarify the minor releases vs. major releases of EMI with SA1/SA2 from the viewpoint of area workplans.