Backlog for Sprint due on 15/3/2011

Table of Contents

1. Documentation
2. Build tools
3. Configuration Modules
4. RHEL6/SL6 support
5. QWG
   1. gLite
6. SCDB
7. Monitoring
8. SINDES
9. Web site
10. Miscellaneous

This page contains the backlog for the sprint due on March the 15th, 2011. It updated weekly after the standup meeting.

Complete Quattor backlog is available here.

Progress with the sprint backlog is reviewed at a weekly standup meeting held by EVO every Thursday at 2 pm CET. Connection information is:

Title:    QuattorStandup

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- Meeting URL: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=eneueMv8vsaaaia2In
          Password: qmm
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Documentation

• Better integration of former MediaWiki content into existing section, remove duplicates (Michel)
  • Move Toolkit subsections 'For users' and 'For developers'
• Import BEGrid wiki page on Quattor wiki and updat with RAL experience (James)
  • 3/2: waiting Shkelzen's agreement. (Michel)
• Wikipedia: reference to sites using Quattor in external links section (all)

Build tools

• Testing of new build tools (Luis + others)
• Tool to convert from old to new build tools

Configuration Modules

• New ncm-spma migration strategy for QWG (Michel/Victor)

RHEL6/SL6 support

A few issues during first tests at CERN. See ​https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ELFms/VmRhes6

• Nick to build a list of general issues before we decide on the plan

QWG

• Implement namespace improvements as suggested by Nick
  • vendor/version-arch or vendor/version/arch for OS templates (Michel)
• Update CAF/LC to last versions (Michel)
  • Ronald fixed a couple of components: will send the list by email
• Agree on Pan annotation tags

gLite

• Argus machine type documentation (Jerome)
• CE tags publishing: fix for lcg-tags --sc
• DPM/xrootd: add support for multiple principals (principal definition in ncm-dpmlfc)

SCDB

Monitoring

• Complete integration of NIKHEF improvements to add flexibility and support hierarchy of Nagios servers (Ronald)
• Gather the information on existing Quattor-related probes at sites (Christos)

SINDES

• Put it in Quattor repository (Luis/James)
  • 3/2: delayed until official confirmation by CERN KTT about the agreement.

Web site

• Document use of TERENA certificate with Firefox 3.6 and Safari on landing page
• Enable Trac indexing by robots (Michel)
• Calendar of events on the wiki or in SF (David)
  • May use "news" feature rather than calendar
• Automatic redirect/content removal on former Quattor site, ​http://quattor.web.cer.ch
• Discussion on wishes related to navigation menu behaviour

Miscellaneous

• Assess feasibily of exporting current SVN to Git (Michel)
  • Configure browsing of Aquilon Git into QWG Trac?