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