16th Quattor Workshop

Name: 16th Quattor Workshop
Start: 2013-09-30T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: INFN CNAF Bologna

30 Sept 2013, 08:00 → 2 Oct 2013, 18:00 Europe/Vatican

Asinelli meeting room (INFN CNAF Bologna)

Asinelli meeting room

INFN CNAF Bologna

INFN CNAF Via Ranzani 13/2 Bologna Italy

Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF), Luis Fernando Munoz Mejias (Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Description

This workshop is the main meeting of the Quattor community. Its main goal is discussing main issues, roadmap and community organization. It brings together Quattor developers and users and is open to everybody interested by Quattor. Sessions for tutorials and hands-on may be arranged.

Participants

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Monday 30 September
- Welcome & Introduction
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speaker: Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)
  - 2
    
    Project overview
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
- Core tools
  - 3
    
    Core modules status
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
  - 11:00
    
    Coffee break
  - 4
    
    CDBSync and Aquilon dependencies
    
    Description of the work on CDBSync at Morgan Stanley. We'll also discuss how and where to publish it (SourceForge? Github?).
    
    Speaker: Zoltan Sebestyen (Morgan Stanley)
    
    Slides
  - 5
    
    ncm-ncd roadmap
    
    During the last releases we have seen some activity into ncm-ncd. We'll explain what it was about, detail use cases for hooks, and try to outline what needs to be done in order to achieve policy-based component execution.
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
- 12:10
  
  Lunch
- Dissemination
  
  Discussion about Quattor templates publishing and sharing
  - 6
    
    QWG status
  - 7
    
    Templates for releases - easying up the Quattor upgrade path
    
    Releases seem to be useful, but users still ask for a well-defined upgrade path.
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
  - 8
    
    Core Quattor schema, sharing and distribution
- 15:10
  
  Coffee break
- Accessibility
  
  Release process, frustrations of a new user, web page quality...
  - 9
    
    Release process
    
    Describe the current release process (stable and bleeding-edge) and collect ideas of how to improve it.
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
  - 10
    
    Experiences from a new user
    
    Pitfalls a new user faces when approaching Quattor, and things we should be improving to make it easier to start a new site.
    
    Speaker: Samir Amary (IIHE (ULB-VUB))
  - 11
    
    Web page and documentation
    
    Quick discussions on how to make it easier to find contents relevant in the web page
Tuesday 1 October
- Aquilon
  
  Convener: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)
  - 12
    
    Aquilon status and roadmap
    
    Speaker: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)
  - 13
    
    RAL's experiences with Aquilon
    
    Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break
- Aquilon
  
  Convener: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)
  - 10:55
    
    Coffee break
  - 14
    
    Distributing Aquilon
    
    Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- Core tools
  - 15
    
    Compiler status report
    
    Speaker: Cal Loomis (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
  - 16
    
    ncm-network status
    
    Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)
- 15:00
  
  Coffee break
- Development process
  - 17
    
    Github review
    
    We've been using GitHub heavily for the last year. What is good and bad of GitHub? And of the way we use GitHub?
Wednesday 2 October
- Hands-on sessions