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Meeting 84 – 30 April 2015

Agenda

  • Actions from meeting 83 (Steve)
  • Component development
    • ICAT (Steve)
    • ICAT Manager
    • Python-icat (Rolf)
    • IDS (Steve)
      • FUSE (Condie)
      • Globus transfer (Frazer)
      • SmartClient (Steve)
      • WebDAV (Kevin)
    • TopCAT (Wayne)
    • IJP (Brian R)
    • Installation (Steve)
  • Migration to git/github (Steve)
  • RoadMap (Steve)
  • Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
  • AOB (Any)

Notes

Present: Condie, Steve, Tom, Wayne, Kevin P, Brian R, Fazer, Rolf, Milan

Apologies: Andy

  • Action 83.0: The IDS alternate download protocol diagram was replaced by a presentation shown at the F2F meeting.
  • Action 83.1: Customer representatives from facilities invited to TopCAT v2 sprint review meetings with overall positive feedback.
  • Action 83.2: TopCAT v2 layout mockups finalised and circulated.
  • Action 82.2: Not being kept as a specific action and is being replacement by on going discussions for each related component in the agenda.
  • Action 81.1: Response to PaNdata document has been circulated.
  • Since the previous meeting Steve informed the group that a few bugs have been brought to light in the latest release of ICAT. The first being that the export call of the ICAT RESTful interface does not always produce properly formatted output. Issues surrounding the installation of ICAT with recent versions of Java were also reported by Rolf and Tom.
  • Rolf informed the group that a new release of Python-ICAT is imminent, given that no new bugs or feature requests emerge. The release will include example scipts for using the ICAT import and export with REST.
  • ICAT-FUSE is still being developed with work still required to find a fix to how Fuse handles ‘move to recycle bin’ in nautilus.
  • Kevin mentioned that a functioning version of WebDAV will be put into production by Artemis over the next month or so. A full version that can be used by different ICAT implementations will be looked at after the Artimus implementation is deployed.
  • Wayne mentioned that TopCAT v2 development is underway with the login/authentication, meta data panel engine being complete.
  • An AngularJs version of IJP is currently being developed by Brian.
  • Shelley has requested the Mac Os compatibility be included in the ICAT Installer. Steve to look into the complexity of this before deciding whether or not to proceed with adding this functionality.
  • Steve spoke about some of the current work he is undergoing to migrate the ICAT codebase away from google code to Git. The existing SVN repositories need to be split into multiple repositories in order to match the definition of a repository in Git. This will also require some manual cleanup of branches and tags. The wikis and issues to also be manually moved to Git/Github, however issues will not retain its history to simplify this process. Total migration is still a few months away from completion.

Actions

ITEM DESCRIPTION ASSIGNED
84.0 Invite Jianguo to the monthly ICAT meetings Steve
84.1 Circulate Git book details Steve
84.2 Schedule TopCAT v2 sprint review meetings Tom
84.3 Create backup of SVN Steve
84.4 Update RoadMap Steve
82.0 LDAP enhancement to work with a functional ID Steve
81.0 Report bug in eclipselink Steve
74.0 Look into JDBC connector resilience with Wildfly Steve
61.1 Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when ready Condie