= Quattor Initial Backlog =
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This page contains the backlog for the sprint due on February the 3d, 2011. It is updated weekly, look at [?action=history history] for more details.

Complete Quattor backlog is available [/wiki/Development/Scrum 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)~~
 * 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''
 * 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)

== 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).
   

== Configuration Modules ==
 
New SPMA
 * Test at GRIF (Victor and Luis)
   * ''9/12: done at GRIF by deploying ncm-spma 1.8.0 (new functions but new schema not used)''
 
== 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

=== gLite ===

 * LSC file support (Guillaume)
   * ''6/1: almost complete, still to be committed''
 * 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 [#SCDB VOConfigTask]''
   * ''6/1: done, except documentation of changes in processing of VO site params''

== SCDB == #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''
 * 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
 
== 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 (Michel/Nick)