16th Quattor Workshop

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

Asinelli meeting room (INFN CNAF Bologna)

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

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.

Monday, 30 September

09:30 → 10:30 Welcome & Introduction

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

09:50 Project overview

Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)

10:30 → 12:10 Core tools

10:30 Core modules status

Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)

11:00 Coffee break

11:20 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 cdb2sql-ora.pdf cdb2sql-ora.pptx

11:40 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 → 13:10 Lunch

13:10 → 15:10 Dissemination

Discussion about Quattor templates publishing and sharing

13:10 QWG status

13:30 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)

14:10 Core Quattor schema, sharing and distribution

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:30 Accessibility

Release process, frustrations of a new user, web page quality...

15:30 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)

16:15 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))

17:00 Web page and documentation

Quick discussions on how to make it easier to find contents relevant in the web page

Tuesday, 1 October

09:30 → 10:30 Aquilon

Convener: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)

09:30 Aquilon status and roadmap

Speaker: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)

10:00 RAL's experiences with Aquilon

Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)

10:30 → 10:55 Coffee break

10:55 → 12:00 Aquilon

Convener: Gabor Gombas (Morgan Stanley)

10:55 Coffee break

11:15 Distributing Aquilon

Speaker: Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Universiteit Gent)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Core tools

13:00 Compiler status report

Speaker: Cal Loomis (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

13:20 ncm-network status

Speaker: James Adams (STFC RAL)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:30 Development process

15:30 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

09:00 → 17:00 Hands-on sessions