Backlog for Sprint 2011-04

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This page contains the backlog for the sprint due on December 1, 2011. It is updated weekly after the standup meeting. Most actions are tracked in Trac tickets.

Complete Quattor backlog is available here.

Progress with the sprint backlog is reviewed at a weekly standup meeting held by EVO every Thursday at 2:15 pm CET. Connection information is:

Title:    QuattorStandup

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=eneueMv8vsaaaia2In
          Password: qmm
- Phone Bridge
  ID: 7 8896
  Password: 5030

Actions Completed

Actions in progress

Documentation

• Initial Aquilon documentation
  • Usage
  • Installation (appliance)

Build tools

• Use of new build tools for 1 or 2 NCM components (to be defined)
  • First require fixing schema

Configuration Modules

• ncm-network full rewrite
  • Basic component ok, progressing...
• ncm-dpmlfc: rewrite without dabase-related functions and use ncm-mysql to configure the database (changes required in DPM/LFC templates)
  • Direct mysql management removed, updating templates to use ncm-mysql
• ncm-gip2 should use perl-CAF to execute commands rather than `$cmd`

AII

• Fix remaining AII issues for proper RHEL6 support
• Allow to use standard Anaconda disk formatting features rather than %pre script
• aii-pxelinux: use the MAC address instead of the interface name

QWG

• Implement OS namespace improvement (Michel)
  • vendor/version-arch or vendor/version/arch for OS templates
• Update CAF/LC to last versions (Michel)
• Agree on Pan annotation tags
• KVM support outside StratusLab (Jérome)
  • Discuss with Cal what can be reused in configuration modules developped by StratusLab
• StratusLab templates: do a code review and ensure they allow to start a site from scratch
  • Several sites (RAL, Strasbourg) reported problems with distributed templates
  • Tbd with StratusLab team
• On RHEL/SL 6, ensure that kernel option nokz=off is defined by default in Grub configuration (significant performance impact)

gLite support

• CE tags publishing: fix for lcg-tags --sc
• CE configuration: allow different list of VOs on different CEs sharing the same gridmapdir

Monitoring

• Gather the information on existing Quattor-related probes at sites (Christos)
• Check problems in current monitoring templates for using them with icinga (UGant)

SCDB

• Use panc v9

Aquilon

• Fix Kerberos issue in Aquilon appliance
• Demonstrate it can be used on various virtualization platforms (VirtualBox, StratusLab)

Web site

• Configure browsing of SF Git repositories on QWG Trac (Michel)

Miscellaneous

• Decide location/date of next Quattor workshop (Budapest?)

Actions Postponed

These actions originally scheduled for this sprint have been moved back to the general backlog.