= Backlog for Sprint 2012-01 =
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This page contains the backlog for the sprint due on June 30, 2012. It is updated weekly after the standup meeting. Most actions are tracked in [/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&milestone=Sprint-2012-01&group=component&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority Trac tickets].

Complete Quattor backlog is available [/wiki/Development/Scrum here].

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== Actions Completed ==

== Actions in progress ==

=== Documentation ===

 * Initial Aquilon documentation
   * [/wiki/Doc/Aquilon/Usage Usage]
   * [/wiki/Download/Aquilon Installation (appliance)]
 * Document for component developpers best practices regarding logging and expected default verbosity

=== Build tools ===

=== Configuration Modules ===
 
 * [ticket:249 ncm-network rewrite]: validate initial rewrite (code review, deployment on a test system keeping in mind features not yet reimplemented)
 * [ticket:261 ncm-gip2 should use perl-CAF to execute commands rather than `$cmd`]
 * `ncm-ncd` : implement dependency alias names to enable transparent replacement of a component by another one (or implement metadependencies)
   * ''User story: be able to say that spma dependency is in fact provided by `ncm-yum`.''
   * ''3/5: new version made by Luis using the new build tools and use of PErl templates, may start to work on packager dependency in June''
 
=== AII ===


=== Package Deployment ===

 * SPMA replacement by YUM: from [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/SteveTraylen/Spma2Yum CERN experience]: preliminary work and experiment

=== QWG ===

 * Prepare a QWG release based on [/wiki/Development/Scrum/Sprint-2011-04 previous sprint](Michel)
 * [ticket:236 Implement OS namespace improvement] (Michel)
   * vendor/version-arch or vendor/version/arch for OS templates
 * [ticket:237 Update CAF/LC to last versions] (Michel)
 * Rework the definition of RPM version to use using an improved default version mechanism. This involves:
   * Modified `ncm-spma` function `pkg_repl` to mark addition of a default version with a special value
   * Modified `ncm-spma` function `pkg_resolve` to resolve default version in the (final) package list
   * Update current `rpms.tpl` to do `pkg_repl` with default version and to define an initial list of package default version
   * Update update/errata RPM list to update the default version list
   * Remove reexecution of update/errata templates in many places...
 * [ticket:238 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 (Guillaume)
   * 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)
 * Review network interface configuration to ensure it doesn't clash with SL6 interface name definition in `udev`
   * Look at the possibility of using a Quattor specific name for interfaces, also defined in `udev`. See [/wiki/Meetings/Workshops/20111011#RHEL6 discussion] during Strasbourg workshop.

=== gLite support ===

 * [ticket:240 CE tags publishing: fix for lcg-tags --sc]
 * [ticket:260 CE configuration: allow different list of VOs on different CEs sharing the same gridmapdir]
 * EMI-1 support : [/wiki/Development/Scrum/QWG-EMI1 specific page]
 * YAIM support as an alternative to QWG service configuration using the same variables (`yaim.tpl` in replacement of `service.tpl`)

=== Monitoring ===

 * Gather the information on existing Quattor-related probes at sites (Christos)
 * Merge Nagios and Icinga templates if possible
 
=== SCDB ===

 * Use panc v9
 * Prepare a SCDB release with new panc and new VOConfigTask

=== Aquilon ===

 * Demonstrate it can be used on various virtualization platforms (VirtualBox, StratusLab)
 * ''12/4 James refreshed test setup @RAL

=== Web site ===

 * [ticket:259 Configure browsing of SF Git repositories on QWG Trac] (Michel)
 * New home page at GitHub
   * ''3/5 : check status of GitHub page and decide next week when to go to production
 * DNS domain `quattor.org` ownership transfer to LAL (Michel)
   * ''23/3: initial agreement received from CERN (German)''
   * ''6/5: mail sent to CERN to implement the change''

=== Miscellaneous ===

 * [/wiki/Development/Scrum/CommandRenaming Command renaming] (prefixed by `quattor-`)
 * ''12/1: Luis has started a Git repository for AII. Will finalize it to include all the AII plugins.''
 * Decide an action plan for implementing a more advanced change scheduling in Quattor: see [/wiki/Meetings/Workshops/20111011#ChangeScheduling discussion]  in Strasbourg and email discussion started by Gabor.
 * Chair for next meetings
   * 10/5: Michel
   * 17/5 : Luis (ascension)
   * 24/5 : Ian
 * Next workshop dates

== Actions Postponed ==

Currently, no action originally scheduled for this sprint have been moved back to the [/wiki/Development/Scrum general backlog].