17th Quattor Workshop

17 Mar 2014, 08:00 → 19 Mar 2014, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Dennis Van Dok (FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (NL)), James Adams (STFC RAL), 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, 17 March

09:30 Welcome and Coffee

GitHub

Reminder of development workflow and GitHub best practices.

Discuss: Are we at the point where we can have everything (including aquilon) in one place?

Packaging

We build RPMs as part of each release, this is a good thing. Should/could we build IPS and DEB packages as well? How can we do this cleanly without a huge mess?

Packaging: Quattor 13.1.3

We build RPMs as part of each release, this is a good thing. Should/could we build IPS and DEB packages as well? How can we do this cleanly without a huge mess?

13:00 Lunch

Components: ncm-puppet

Components: ncm-ceph

Components: ncm-metaconfig: support for filename attribute

Components: ncm-condor vs. ncm-metaconfig

Tuesday, 18 March

09:30 Coffee

Components: spma-ips

11:30 Coffee break

Components: Status review

Documentation: Next steps

13:00 Lunch

Hands-on and Hacking: Migrating away from 13.1

Hands-on and Hacking

Wednesday, 19 March

Modelling Resources in Aquilon

Particularly with a focus on HPC resources and how best to use structures such as clusters and services to model them.

Hands on & Breakouts

Time to work on things together, teach each other and share knowledge.

12:00 Lunch and Farewells