Quattor Monthly Meeting - 8/4/10

Table of Contents

1. Meeting Objectives
2. Action Status since Last Meeting
3. Future
4. Next Meeting

Present:

• Nick, Dave
• David
• Ronald
• Victor
• Christos
• Michel, Cal

​Agenda

Meeting Objectives

Action Status since Last Meeting

Wiki merge

• Missing bits: panc advance feature documentation (logging...)?
• Redirect quattor.org/wiki? Is it really useful?
• Disabling MediaWiki: check if the existing contents is disabled
• Account creation: send an email to Michel with either your DN or your preferred MD5 hash

COST project submitted

Future

Monitoring

• GRIF/NIKHEF discussions about Quattor/NCG integration: a meeting scheduled next week
• TCD/NIKHEF: merge 2 branches of QWG templates.
  • TCD first committing its last changes to QWG trunk

ncm-spma schema improvment to fix the repository per arch issue

• Also check new functions by MS

AII

• MS will push a KS config change to avoid installing many packages during KS that are uninstalled later by SPMA

FUSE for Quattor configuration

• MS has some legal restrictions on adding new bits into SF: waiting a feedback for legal service

Remote Deployer

• MS now happy enough to commit it. Same legal issue.

panc 8.4

• A bit delayed by other urgent work by Cal
• Waiting feedback on performance impact of the new template extension to decide whether implementing extension value as a compiler command line option

Best-practices and API for components: ask Luis about its possible contribution

Engage with YUM developers about implementation of "SPMA-like features".

Next Meeting

1st Thursday of every months: Doodle to find the time (in the afternoon preferably).

Stay with NIKHEF conferencing system.