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Meeting 82 – 22 January 2015

Agenda

  • Actions from meeting 81 (Steve)
  • ICAT development (Steve)
  • ICAT Manager (Christophe)
  • IDS development (Steve)
  • TopCAT development (Wayne)
  • IJP development (Brian R)
  • Installation (Leonardo, Steve)
  • Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
  • 2015 F2F Meeting and Steering Group Meeting at DLS (Steve, Andy and Alun)
  • AOB (Any)

Notes

Present : Condie, Steve, Shelley, Wayne, Kevin P, Brian R, Tom, Christophe, Matt, Rolf, Milan
Apologies: Kevin Knowles, Andy

  • Action 81.1: Steve has confirmed that some work has been done in response to the PaNdata document. Circulation of response possibly deferred to the F2F meeting.
  • Action 81.2: Steve confirmed that the DLS TopCAT 2 requirements have been circulated.
  • Action 81.3: DLS have now been asked for a use case for the TopCAT API. They did not seem to appreciate that the IDS is an interface.
  • Action 81.4: Deferred to the F2F meeting.
  • Action 60.3: IJP released and the mailing list has been informed.
  • Two ICAT authenticators have been repackaged and released by Steve. Replaced the old authenticators and made them easier to use with the ICAT installer. Snapshot was not released as the new authenticators did not add any new functionality.
  • Steve mentioned that he is looking into making the LDAP authenticator work with a functional ID. This feature has been requested by multiple sites in the PaNdata report. Steve is waiting to receive input from Milan’s colleague. Steve will release a new LDAP snapshot when the enhancements are made.
  • Rolf had informed Steve of an authorisation issue when deleting items as any cascading items are also deleted regardless of the users permissions.
  • Christophe is in the process of developing the next release of the ICATManager which is to be released shortly. The new features mentioned include editing multiple entities at once, the navigation from any entity to any related entities order persistence when closing entity tabs.
  • IDS 1.3.0 has been released. It is able to work well with data stored on tape by datafile rather than dataset and the prepareData mechanism has been rewritten to avoid making a copy of the data to download later. Fix for glassfish bug that caused downloads to be truncated after 15 minutes has been sent out by Steve and added to the ICAT installer. DLS requested alternates to HTTP for downloads via the IDS. Steve mentioned that the alternate solutions must be robust for large quantities of data.
  • Wayne reported that he is still in this very early stages of development for TopCAT2. He is also in the process of answering Rolfs comments in regards to the layout design.
  • A snapshot release of the IJP is now available. The IJP components have been have been successfully installed on linux VM’s by two people so far.
  • The ICAT installer has been developed by Steve in response to a complaint by PaNdata. A licence has been obtained to use an installer generator from BitRock. The installer currently runs successfully on linux but has an issue regarding subprocesses on windows. BitRock have been informed and Steve is waiting on a resolution.
  • The 2015 F2F meeting and Steering Group Meeting dates have been narrowed down to 31st March – 2nd April at DLS. This may be reduced to a two day meeting with the exact dates to be confirmed. The meetings agenda is to be released

soon.

Actions

ITEM DESCRIPTION ASSIGNED
82.0 LDAP enhancement to work with a functional ID Steve
82.1 Cascading deletion authorisation bug Steve
82.2 Alternate download protocols for IDS Steve
82.3 Respond to comments on TopCAT 2 layout design Wayne
82.4 ICAT installer windows subprocess issue Steve
82.5 Release F2F Meeting agenda Steve
81.0 Report bug in eclipselink Steve
81.1 Circulate response to PaNdata document Steve
74.0 Look into JDBC connector resilience with Wildfly Steve
61.1 Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when ready Condie