EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting

Name: EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting
Start: 2011-01-26T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2011-01-26T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 26 Jan 2011, 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
    
    From PEB: - Request for Documentation Guidelines to describe the TOC of the Documents required to the PTs. - Platforms are going to be discussed at the PTB and checked with EGI and WLCG. WLCG wants only SL5/64 and later SL6. Debian may come from EGI and other users. Could be different platforms for servers and clients - SA2 Training. There is a poll this week to see what is the need for training. Vote "no" TODAY if you think it is not necessary. :-) In-reach training topics survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FHHZLL8 and also to fill in the doodle poll for the dates http://www.doodle.com/e6ke35358khw5nmb - EGI UF and EMI TF joint conference. https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=207#all All contributions accepted for ora presentations, as far as I know. 11-14 April 2011, Vilnius - EMI All Hands Meeting. Lund University from 30 May-1 June 2011. Please reserve already these dates in your calendar. The very preliminary event page (just a placeholder for now) is at: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=124206 + Next Step - Any issue for PEB?
    
    SA2 Internal Wiki
    
    Sa2 Meetings
  - TSA2.2 – Quality Assurance Process Definition and Monitoring 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - Some progress already done this week. I expect to catch up with my pending tasks full time in the next days. - Announced Release Guidelines - Reviewing QC report from Giuseppe so that some of the actions requested for QA are taken into account and are added in the next version of SQAP. - Started to work on Production Release Criteria: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/ProductionReleaseCriteria + Issues to Discuss - None + Steps Next Week - Prepare the EMI release check list: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EMIReleaseChecklist - Prepare an example of the component versioning schema we would like to propose for PTs. - Work on the next version of SQAP.
  - TSA2.3 – Metrics and KPIs Definition and Reporting 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - SA2.3 Report generation meeting outcome: - Reporting plots to be redefined in SA2.4 - Description of Untouched Open Bugs and Successful Builds metrics are now defined in the Internal metrics report. Description provided to Lars too. - modification needed to the report template - FindBugs problems remote build problems relate to lack of quotation marks around variables. - Local build setup with correct externals did help debug some issues. + Issues to Discuss None + Steps Next Week - Still awaiting ARC/dCache bug-tracker listings. Holdups are now understood. - Write-up of FindBugs usage with caveats.
  - TSA2.4 – Tools and Repositories Selection, Maintenance and Integration 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - QA Report Generator - Inserted charts in EMI Template - Status meeting regarding report generator. - Created bugs scatter, bugs scatter chart with log scale, number of bugs bar, cumulative bug days bar charts. - ETICS Client - Regression testing - Knowledge transfer meetings - Software Updates - Design of a new build/test submission panel - Adding new back-office features to the administration tab. - Repository bugfixes for ETICS 3.4.0 - QueryServlet: nullpointerexception - Exception when registering a build with reportName - Yum repository does not handle epoch in the repository portal RPM info - Exception in DownloadServlet (externals/jdk/1.6.0_20/linux_x86_64/jdk-1.6.0_20-fcs.x86_64.rpm/-/P/) - Infrastructure - Meetings with CVI for the migration (20 HVs coming) - 90% of migration completed. Waiting for more resources. - Plugins - CCCC fixed and tested - PyLint completed, now under testing - ETICS Support - Some information collected from the ETICS DB for Cristina about EMI configurations. - 5 GGUS tickets handled - 3 External registration for Cristina, DM and d4science - Support to Fabrizio Furano (DM) for ETICS kick-start - ETICS client debugging meeting - Eamonn support for repository registration + Issues to Discuss NONE + Steps Next Week - DSA2.2.2 - Continue on the iteration as planned
  - TSA2.5 – QA Implementation Review and Support 5m
    
    + Status and Progress 2.4 -adding a new feature to a revision test suite. If a build process is broken then the program sends a warning to a developer who broken code (Marek). 2.5 -one review finished -investigation of situation of glue 2.0 integration testing (GSTAT 2 testing, ARC test plan) -participation on ARC coordinate meeting -update wiki (Wednesday, before meeting)
  - TSA2.6 – Testbeds Setup, Maintenance and Coordination 5m
    
    + Status and Progress KOSICE: support for ARC developers and upgraded the ISIS services because of bug in latest stable release. JUELICH: * batch system setup completed; 4 compute nodes; DESY: certificate renewal, voms server problems, failing tests in the testbed CNAF: testbed administration. new istance for Storm deployment with Lustre (working on) CERN: - upgrades on the testbed (glite 3.1 -> 3.2) - debugging nagios tests (eg. still issues with gstat-site test, it seems that tests have hardcoded urls on which they rely, which changed recently...) - renewal of CA and user certificates, creating and distributing CA RPM CESNET: -- + Issues to Discuss KOSICE: A request from ARC developers came, that they would like to have one testbed with a more frequent deploy (so not installed with latest stable release, but e.g. with nightly). We will try to satisfy this requirement.----> TO DISCUSS UPDATES on MS24? + Steps Next Week DESY:fixing testbed CNAF: new istance for Storm deployment with Lustre (going on working)
- 11:10 → 11:30
  Issue and Topics to Discuss 20m
  - AOB