ETICS Technical Commitee

Name: ETICS Technical Commitee
Start: 2009-06-04T15:30:00+02:00
End: 2009-06-04T16:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Thursday 4 Jun 2009, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

TBD (CERN)

TBD

CERN

Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)

Description

Conference Name: ETICS Technical Committee meeting Recurrence: Every Thursday at 15:30 CET Dial-in numbers: +41227676000 (Main) Access code: 0126137 (Participant) Participant site: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0126137

- 15:30 → 15:35
  
  Welcome and headcount 5m
- 15:35 → 16:00
  Status reports 25m
  
  Highlights of the week, 5 minutes for each WP (NA2, SA1, SA2, JRA1, JRA2)
  - NA2 5m
    
    Dissemination and Exploitation • Made some changes to the questions of ETICS customer satisfaction survey. Will discuss how to proceed now • Presented two session proposals for EGEE 09, one together with OGF Europe and the other together with EGEE Development (JRA1) and Certification (SA3) Activities • Collaborated to the presentation of a workshop proposal (STV workshop - System Testing and Validation) to ICSOC-ServiceWave conference (24th-27th November). The workshop was presented in collaboration with STV Workshop which is a series of events initiated in the year 2002. • Gave a demo to the head of ENG research unit and Managing Director of Engiweb Secuirty S.p.A (Engineering group). At the demo also other members of the R&S lab (heads of research areas and researchers) and representatives of commercial projects were present. Outcome was positive and interesting collaborations might start as a result of the demo. Interest in testing and quality verification. There is a need for the dissemination team to have more information on testing and prepare a demo on the testing features. • Exploring other grant opportunities in areas different from Research Infrastructure (e.g QUalipso and its follow-up) Training • Sent a proposal for a training session on ETICS to the GridKA school organizers (http://www.fzk.de/gks09). They replied immediately. Both full day and half a day session slots are available and we were also offered the possibility to participate to the poster session. Discussing internally what is the best solution. Reviewing DSA2.5.
  - SA1 5m
    
    ++ Releases - Almost the same as last week... We wait for Andres to be at CERN for the release. - Testing the release candidates is successful. - Still testing 2.4.3 (now RC4) we had to remove the latest client because some plug-ins need to be modified. - The client 1.4.7 will be release asynchronously. - Release 2.4.4 will follow quite soon with what was left out of 2.4.3 - Release descriptions are available here: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ETICS/SA1ReleasesContents ++ Development - Writing a "diff" between configurations or same configuration on different platforms. - Plug-ins integration is progressing but few stil missing to have all the AQCM metrics (next few weeks). - Plugins for Findbugs and JUnit fixed - Started plugin for CKJM, when the new client is out will be easy to add new plugins. - Dashboard: newcomers needs to learn ETICS, GWT, etc still in training/planning phase - Working on multi-node testing but is not progressing fast with all other activities ongloing. - Disseminator now in the internet servers and being reviewed. - Submitters integration progressing on the development environment and we will do some testing soon with SA2. - Working on the Web Applications to support the configuration and launch of multi-node tests. ++ Infrastructure - Adding Debian v5 to the PRODUCTION pool (under tests) - Removed virtualised nodes of SL5 x86_64 from pool. Installed physical node for SL5 x86_64 - Investigating Deb v4 x86_64 problems with builds, could be Condor related. - SL v5.2 will become SL5.3, as the default SL5. - X-Site migration: mail exchange, bug in Condor to be fixed, new Condor release needed - ongoing - New platform names proposed https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ETICS/PlatformNames
  - SA2 5m
    
    Support ------- - Jozsef, Andre' in shift. 3 tickets, 2 solved (8h), 0 escalated, 1 pending. 2 externals processed Requirements ------------ - Uwe started phasing in the ESOC APIs application. Goal is to be able to use it for evangelizing at VEGA. New applications ---------------- - Received requests from the RESERVOIR project. They would like to use ETICS for doing deployment and functional testing possibly on more nodes. Anyone is going to take in charge the writing of what's the system will offer in that respect? Infrastructure Integration Job Submission ------------------------------------------ - Still waiting for an help for installing software on the EGEE worker nodes - Testing the integration of the gLite and Metronome submitters with Andres from SA1 (gLite submitters work on CNAF resources while sorting out the problmes installing the nodes) - Design for an EC2 externsions on hold due to other commitments Deliverables and milestone --------------------------- - DSA2.5 due PM15. Sent complete version (0.9-4), asking the TC comments about the guidelines on testing. - MSA2.5 in progress, a bit slow the intregration testing iteration with Andres
  - JRA1 5m
  - JRA2 5m
    
    Development Web UI of the test tool registration is under work. We are doing improvements in terms of design, user friendliness and to be similar to the rest of the ETICS web ui (in terms of styles). Information system part (search functionality) is under work. Help system is under work. SZTAKI is working on the introduction in ETICS of their "Desktop grid" application. They encountered some problems doing remote builds. Multinode Tommorrow will be an internal JRA2 meeting between 4D SOFT and SZTAKI with the focus on the status of multinode. Details will be sent next week.
- 16:00 → 16:05
  
  Review recommendations, user satisfaction survey, next all-hands, AOBs 5m
  
  Discussion on recommendations List of questions (almost) defined Start discussion on AH agenda
- 16:05 → 16:20
  
  Deliverables, milestones and planning check 15m
  
  Formal check of agreed milestones and planning
- 16:20 → 16:25
  
  ETICS USIS (User Satisfaction Improvement Strategy) 5m
  
  Improving user satisfaction about usage of the ETICS services is critical. ETICS is often perceived as slow and difficult to use. This is due to a number of factors: 1) Need for technical improvements in speed and usability 2) Disinformation or third-party rumours 3) General resistance to adopt 'procedures' We need to understand what to focus on and have a plan to address this issue as a combination of technical enhancements, training and dissemination. Where to start?
- 16:25 → 16:30
  
  AOB 5m

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