Quattor Initial Backlog

Table of Contents

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

This page contains the initial backlog for Quattor development that will be used to start the CRUM-based process.

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)
• Remove Trac request for a user certificate for anonymous access (Michel)
• Enable Trac indexing by robots (Michel)
• Fix navigation menu behaviour: discuss by email what we want to implement, then implement it (Michel)

Documentation

• Better integration of former MediaWiki content into existing section, remove duplicates
• Update SINDES related documentation, improve based on BEGrid wiki and RAL experience
• Clarify or add missing material to answer Ronald's questions after his QWG migration experience
• Implement changes based on Andrea's review (to be monitored in monthly meetings)
• Fix/improve Quattor description in Wikipedia and Freshmeat
• Ensure Quattor is reference on the appropriate open-source or software project portals
  • Ohloh
  • ​Krugle
  • ​Freshmeat

Build tools

• Final cleanups (Cal)

Configuration Modules

New SPMA

• Test at GRIF (Victor) and CERN (Luis)

SCDB

• VOConfigTask: support for new VO ID card dump format

QWG

• Organize initial development meeting based on today's proposal (Michel)
• Implement namespace improvements as suggested by Nic
  • standard/hardware/... including a vendor directory
  • vendor/version-arch or vendor/version/arch for OS templates

gLite

• LSC file support
• Argus machine type

Monitoring

• Implement NIKHEF suggestions to add flexibility and support hierarchy of Nagios servers (Ronald?)
• Collect existing Nagios probes related to Quattor activity monitoring, put them in SF and package them as a RPM (Christos)

SINDES

• Check with CERN agreement to import it in SF repository (Véronique)
• Check licensing (Véronique)
• Clarify official distribution point/channel (CERN)
• Integration Quattor server configuration (RAL)

Miscellaneous

• Create a developer's mailing list
• Document/encourage the use of Git as a front-end to SVN to better evaluate potential benefits of a migration
• Check how Git repositories can be configured on SF, migration from SVN, how many repositories by project...
  • Enable and create for new bits like Aquilon
• Calendar of events on the wiki or in SF
  • May use "news" feature rather than calendar