PTB Meeting

Tuesday 26 Apr 2011, 15:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Teleconference

Extraordinary PTB meeting, 15:00-17:30, 26 April, 2011 Calling details: skype test conferencing service in Lund Proposed agenda: ---------------- - First round of objectives definition - WLCG requirements (if we receive those by that time)

document emi-requirements.ods objectives.odt

Extraordinary PTB meeting, 15:00-17:06, 26 April, 2011

Calling details:  skype test conferencing service in Lund 

Present: Morris, John, Marco, Patrick, Balazs
Missing: Laurence


0) Balazs gave an overview on the progress for the workplan preparation. Requiremen collection, analysis is done, this week the goal is to define, review the objectives.  W19 and 20 will be reserved for harmonization plans, component cuts, simplifications. 

1) First round of objectives definition

The collected requirements were transfered into objectives. Here is the agreed list of new objectives (not complete yet):

• agreed: objective for all area: "Evolve EMI components to meet specific user requests"

• agreed: Improve usability of client tools based on customer feedback by ensuring a ) better more informative, less contradictory error messages b) coherency of commands line parameters

• agreed: Adhere to operating system standards for service operation and control regarding configuration, log and temporary file location and service start/status/stop

• agreed: Port, release and support EMI components on identified platforms (full distribution on SL6 and Debian 6, UI on SL5/32 and latest ubuntu)

• agreed: Provide optimized semi-automated configuration of service backends (e.g. databases) for standard deployment.

• agreed: publish coherent GLUE2-based version information as part of service description for service discovery and monitoring

• agreed: EMI Computing Services should provide fully integrated solutions to interface with identified set of batch systems.

• agreed: EMI SRM clients and servers should add "file://" to the already supported data access protocols.

• agreed: Investigation of the possibility to support http/webdav for LFC in order to provide a standard user-friendly access method to catalogue

2) next meetigs:
-Wednesday 9-9:30, short call to finish he remaining requirements

-Wednesday 14-16:30: objective round 2, review & prioritization of DNA1.3.1 objectives

-Thursday 10-12, objective round 3 (no Patrick)

-Friday 10-12, objective round 4 (no John)