Summary of the EDG review Some info for the next future of the WP1 software

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Summary of the EDG review Some info for the
next future of the WP1 software

• Massimo Sgaravatto
• INFN Padova

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Final EDG Review

• Date February 19-20, 2004
• Agenda (http//agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?idaa
  036278)
• Status of the project (Gagliardi)
• Software integration, deployment and evaluation
  (Loomis)
• Application assessment
• WP8, WP9, WP10 talks
• Dissemination and Quality Assurance
• WP11 and QAG talks
• Demos
• WP8 (Alice), WP9, WP10 demos
• Using the EDG application testbed (EDG rel. 2.1)
• WP1 demo
• DAGMan (considering a CMS application)
  demonstrated
• Using the WP1 testbed (rel 3 of WP1 sw, not
  deployed in the EDG appl. testbed)
• Problem with the WP8 demo (not seen by the
  reviewers)

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Final EDG Review

• Agenda (cont.)
• Middleware developments
• WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP7, SecGroup talks
• Conclusions
• Technical summary (Laure)
• Project summary (Gagliardi)
• Feedback of reviewers
• Happy with the achievements of the project
• Agree that it was needed to put aside certain
  developments for the overall priorities of the
  project and to meet the application needs
• Comments and recommendations
• Care should be taken to keep the core group of sw
  developers engaged in future projects
• Keep the AWG running
• Importance of contributing aggressively to
  standardization groups

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EDG future

• New (final) EDG release sw under preparation
• Basically should be only bug fixes
• Deadline to release RPMS yesterday
• Should be deployed in the EDG appl. testbed on
  March, 15
• EDG CVS repository open until April 30, 2004
• Bugzilla will remain open until April 30, 2004 as
  well
• At that point it will be frozen, all open bugs
  will be closed with a "Won't Fix" status, and the
  database archived

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WP1 software

• Will be migrated to the INFN (CNAF) CVS server
  (managed by A. Ferraro A. Caltroni)
• The migration already started
• Copy of CVS workload module (with all history)
  from EDG CVS server in Lyon
• workload directory _at_ Lyon already read-only
• Setting of user accounts
• Daily backups have been assured
• Mirror CVS server _at_ CESNET
• Then merge between head (rel 2) and DAGMan branch
  (rel 3)
• Should be completed by March, 19

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LCG support

• LCG decided to fully control the software
  deployed in the LCG infrastructure (LCG uses on
  the EDG open source software)
• Deployed software maintained in a CVS server
  under LCG control
• Initially copied from the EDG CVS server
• LCG controls exactly what gets changed
• Only LCG commits to this CVS repository
• LCG operates a bugtracking system in Savannah
  completely unrelated with the EDG bugzilla

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LCG support

• First line of support provided by LCG
• They try to fix bugs
• Second line of support contact persons for key
  packages contacted on LCG request
• Key packages and contact persons
• VDT funded to support LCG
• EDG WP1 M. Sgaravatto
• EDG WP2 J. Casey
• Glue Schema S. Andreozzi
• VOMS INFN
• dCache DESY
• Anyone interested in changes that LCG makes to
  the code can subscribe to the CVS change
  notification ML of the LCG repository
• LCG would like to receive release notes of
  changes applied by the original developers to the
  original code