EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting

Name: EMI SA2 Weekly Meeting
Start: 2011-03-23T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2011-03-23T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 23 Mar 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
    
    + Status and Progress - PEB find not meet. No news. - Open question: Can the testbed be used at the EGI TF for training purposes? There is a ticket from Emidio about Gilda. - QC and Documentation Teams: PEB wants to have teams to quickly read the material produced and provide feedback. I will be in. Maria volunteered. - Presentations in Vilnius. Presenters should prepare them in advance and circulate them. - The links to the videos of the SA2 training are on the EMI SA2 page http://bit.ly/emisa2 EGI: - Sent feedback to the EGI on their guidelines. We have a meeting today. Conferences - EGI UF and EMI TF joint conference. https://www.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=13&confId=207#20110412 - Participation from the task leaders - EMI All Hands Meeting. Lund University from 30 May-1 June 2011. https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=124206 + Next Step - Check the documents and reports from the product teams
    
    SA2 Internal Wiki
    
    Sa2 Meetings
  - TSA2.2 – Quality Assurance Process Definition and Monitoring 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - New version of Documentation Policy ready. Waiting for feedback from PEB. - New certification policy announced last week with changes suggested by PEB. - RC table of mandatory artifacts for each RC is now ready in the check list twiki. + Issues to Discuss - PEB won't approve certain policies and documents after EMI-1, among them: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/ProductionReleaseCriteria I've asked if QC can in any case use the verification report but no news. - Waiting for Alberto DM to organize the Documentation Team. I've been contacted by NA2 and I'm in touch with them. + Steps Next Week - Reviewing the Metrics Generation Twiki: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiSa2MetricsGuidelines - Working on SQAP. - Working on QA report.
  - TSA2.3 – Metrics and KPIs Definition and Reporting 5m
    
    + Status and Progress - Large number of changes to internal metrics document v0.36: * Figure numbering correcting, effecting Lars reports (cross-referencing wasn't used). * Metric descriptions updated: cppcheck, FixABug, UpdateDoc, CodeComments * Metric descriptions added: CCCC * Metric descriptions reformulated to match reporting: BackLog, SuccessfulBuilds - Starting layout for UF2011 presentation. - Some dialog with Fabio regarding cppcheck usage. + Steps Next Week - Finish presentation for UF2011 for local (TCD) dry-run: 30th March 2011.
  - TSA2.4 – Tools and Repositories Selection, Maintenance and Integration 5m
    
    + Status and Progress Service Maintenance: - Added CERN SL mirrors for mock - Some bugs discovered in the Configuration tab under investigation - Bug in the WS with "\" character when cloning solved. Ready to be released - BDII build problem investigation with client 1.5.3 tests - Verification of jobs with multiple -p options specified. It seems there is a problem with the plugins - Investigation with Francesco and Andres Wanaanen about the location of WSDL files in RPMs - Identification of differences in the installed packages in EPEL 32 VS 64 bit Infrastructure: - SL5 32 bits EPEL in place - Documentation for templates backup is ready - Creating a new template with capacity to be deployed in two modes (runAsroot/normal) - monitoring scripts (still ongoing) Support: - Contacted SVN support about connection errors found in build logs - 8 GGUS closed - 10 new external components for EMI - Problem with EMI RC2 nightly build with --repackage option solved - Support to Fabrizio Furano about configuration cloning and python dependencies on gLite and EMI QA: - Created time series backlog management index charts for entire project and per product. - Created mapping between bug tracker categories and EMI product teams and products. - Implemented mapping in bug tracker charts. - Fixed page numbering and font styles in EMT report. - Fixed several y-axis labels. - Fixed several chart subtitles. DSA2.2.2: - Completed, sent to Florida - Sent to the section for feedback - Andres feedback received, to be integrated - Preparing Vilnius presentation + Steps Next Week - Release client 1.5.3 - EPEL RunAsRoot template
  - TSA2.5 – QA Implementation Review and Support 5m
    
    During preparation performance ARC test I found that technical specification like performance or reliable of submission process are not defined for EMI product.
  - TSA2.6 – Testbeds Setup, Maintenance and Coordination 5m
    
    + Status and Progress * CERN: - GGUS tickets handling (#67140 problem solved) - cont. preparing new virt. infrastructure * CESNET: - * CNAF: o GGUS tkting o argus large scale testbed discussion o voms RC deployment planning * DESY: o Tickets regarding the wrong bdii information on galway o Familiarizing myself with the new dCache configuration system * JUELICH + Issues to Discuss * EGI TF training required on EMI1 resources. We'll probably have 1 week to setup and test the training infrastructure. * news on WNs? Should we start with gLite WNs? + Steps Next Week * CERN * CESNET * CNAF: o probably argus and voms EMI1-RC deployment. * DESY * JUELICH: support testers in RC2 installation.
- 11:10 → 11:30
  Issue and Topics to Discuss 20m
  - AOB