Backlog for Sprint due on 3/2/2011

Table of Contents

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

This page contained the backlog for the sprint due on February the 3d, 2011. This sprint is now completed and this page reflects its final state.

Complete Quattor backlog is available here.

Web site

• Landing page for quattor.org on SF (David)
  • Develop a stylesheet that could be reused by pages generated from Maven
• Fix Trac server certificate CA (Michel)
  • 25/1: Firefox 3.6 and Safari don't seem to recognize TERENA certs yet (as IE7). Put a warning on new Quattor landing page + information on how to add it to the browser.
• Enable Trac indexing by robots (Michel)

Documentation

• Better integration of former MediaWiki content into existing section, remove duplicates (Michel)
  • Move Toolkit subsections 'For users' and 'For developers'
• Update SINDES related documentation, improve based on BEGrid wiki and RAL experience
  • Collect existing stuff and put it in a subsection of Trac (James/Christos)
  • 16/12: collection done by James, waiting for an account on Trac to put it there
  • 6/1: first draft at https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/Quattor/wiki/Doc/OS/SINDES, waiting for comments
  • 3/2: copy the BEGRID Trac page into QWG Trac (ask Belgium collegues). (Michel/James)
• Fix/improve Quattor description in Wikipedia and Freshmeat
  • Fix page ranking (Wikipedia banner): get the comment updated of fix contents (Ian)
  • Reference to sites using Quattor in external links section (all)
  • Freshmeat later, concentrate on Wikipedia

Build tools

• Final cleanups (Cal)
  • 9/12: High priority for RHEL 6: discuss temporary workarounds on mailing list (in particular @QTTR_PERLLIB@ macro added in perl-LC and perl-CAF by Luis).
  • 20/1: Luis about to install Maven and ready to have a look, will contact Cal for details.
  • 3/2: first version about to be ready to be tested by volunteers. Luis still ready to contribute.

Configuration Modules

• New ncm-spma (Victor and Luis)

QWG

• Implement namespace improvements as suggested by Nick
  • category/vendor/model for hardware templates
  • 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

gLite

• LSC file support (Guillaume)
• Argus machine type (Jerome)
  • 6/1: templates ready, to be committed soon
• CE publishing into BDII to properly support multiple CEs and separate CE/LRMS server (Michel)
  • 9/12: almost done
• Improvement in VO configuration to improve support of site parameters in VO configuration (Michel)
  • 16/12: done, documentation to be updated to reflect new processing of site parameters, new VO parameters required but waiting for the new VOConfigTask
  • 6/1: done, except documentation of changes in processing of VO site params

SCDB

• Improvement of VOConfigTask to support VOMS server attibute IS_VOMSADMIN_SERVER now published in VO card (Michel)
  • Added in the backlog on 16/12 as this is urgently needed after the change in dteam VOMS servers
  • 16/12: Require a full rewrite of the task as the original version is unmaintainable

Monitoring

• Implement NIKHEF suggestions to add flexibility and support hierarchy of Nagios servers (Ronald)
  • 9/12: in progress
  • 6/1: still in progress
  • 3/2: almost ready to be committed into QWG, waiting the merge of trunk into branches.
• Gather the information on existing Quattor-related probes at sites (Christos)
  • 9/12: NIKHEF committed their probes
  • 9/12: Christos, work in progress

SINDES

• Check with CERN agreement to import it in SF repository (Véronique): no issue
• Check licensing (Véronique): no issue
• Clarify official distribution point/channel (CERN): agreement to use Quattor repository
• Put it in Quattor repository (Luis/James)
  • 3/2: delayed until official confirmation by CERN KTT about the agreement.

Miscellaneous

• Assess feasibily of exporting current SVN to Git (Michel)
• Calendar of events on the wiki or in SF (David)
  • May use "news" feature rather than calendar
• Evaluation of SF trackers as a tool for implementing scrum backlogs (Michel/Nick)
  • 27/1: see ticket for proposed solution.