Agenda

• Actions from meeting 76 (Steve)
• ICAT development (Steve)
• InvestigationGroup (Rolf/Tom)
• IDS development (Steve)
• TopCAT development (Wayne)
• IJP development (Brian R)
• Roadmap (Steve)
• Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
• AOB (Any)

Notes

Present : Kunal, Condie, Tom, Kevin, Brian R, Steve, Milan, Rolf, Shelly and Brian M.

• There were no comments on the minutes
• Action 76.0 – Steve has modified Mantid scripts to generate DOIs and store metadata for the ICAT components.
• Action 75.2 – Tom has obtained balsamiq licences for web use for open source software development.
• Action 75.3 – Wayne has made balsamiq mockups of the proposed new TopCAT available.
• Action 75.6 – This can be taken as done.
• Action 61.1 – One of Alistair’s students has been working on the “Simple ICAT Browser”
• Action 60.3 – The current IJP development makes a release much more practical.
• Steve reported that there had been no progress with the ICAT server this month.
• There was a good discussion on introducing the InvestigationGroup to the schema. Tom was concerned that it could cause confusion by offering two ways to do the same thing and that it might have a negative impact upon performance. The agreement was to try the InvestigationGroup in the 4.4.0-SNAPSHOT to ensure that there were no practical problems. and to document that InvestigationGroup should be used for authz and that  InvestigationUser entries should be used only to indicate specific roles such as PI. The role attribute might be made non-optional.
• Steve described what was in the latest IDS SNAPSHOT.  Plugin developers may need to update their plugins to suit. A new getLink call has been added. Rolf confirmed that he had no objection to the implementation of getLink.
• Wayne had released the balsamiq mockups of the new TopCAT. These we only made available very recently and it would seem that nobody had examined them yet.
• Steve explained that the batch side of the IJP had been factored out into a different service. Different implementaions could be written and the IJP would be able to make use of multiple batch services. He has written one for the simple unix batch/atq/atrm system. Brian R is working on a more serious one for IBM Platform LSF.
• Steve having received no input on the roadmap, froze the existing one as the April version and produced a new draft with those things which had been released (even if only as SNAPSHOTs) being removed, a few new bits added and dates made more realistic. Tom said his priority was for rules controlling access to projections of the tables (i.e. only some attributes being available), Shelly expressed an interest in the import/export and Tom also said that FUSE access would be very useful. Some work on this has already been carried out by a student working for Alistair. The roadmap will be adjusted to address these requests, discussed by e-mail and, if agreed, the word “draft” removed next meeting.
• Shelly said that she was going to NOBUGS and asked if anyone else was going. Steve said that he had submitted an IDS abstract and would be going. Brian M pointed out that it clashed with an RDA meeting.

Actions

ITEM	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED
77.0	Check the icatgroup list to ensure that people who should be present are added	Steve
77.1	Update the roadmap	Steve
75.1	Consider using a config file rather than topcatadmin	Wayne
75.4	Submit TopCAT requirements	Andy
74.0	Look into JDBC connector resilience with Wildfly	Steve
61.1	Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is ready	Condie
60.3	Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing list	Steve