MinutesJan03

Introduction

• Attendees: Ted Hesselroth, Tim, Jeff Porter, Neha, Anand, Charles, Rob Quick, Tom, Suchandra, Rob Gardner, Karthik, Alain, Xin
• Apologies: none
• Coordinates: Thursdays, 2:30pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MeetingMinutes
• OSG 0.8/ITB 0.7 background
  • ReleaseDocumentation

Dcache testing/release

• http://indico.fnal.gov/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=15&confId=1344
• Short term goal -- Sites upgrade
• Same as with 1.7 but with space reservations
• Short term --> do install and run validation tests in slide given above
• Longer term --> enable and test space reservations
• Afterwards, do VO acceptance testing (similar to VO tests for itb cycle)
• Client tools not distributed with vdt dcache release -- will need updating
  • may need to download rpm for client for now
  • will be in release soon
• New process, can use existing processes to test
• Need new testing tools for storage?
• Need to recruit VOs for testing
• Test upgrades
• Test systems with pools on private network
• Plan of action so far:
  • Simple vtb testing
  • Work on testing tools if needed
  • Get participation from VOs
  • Look at larger scale testing * Storage group should have a release candidate suitable for itb installs by jan. 18

Catching up

• Items from last meeting

AOB

• BDII osg specific attributes being served
  • testing attributes
  • Suchandra will email Anand osg specific attributes that were requested
• Next week ITB meeting will be replaced with monthly site admins telecon -- will go over action items