Agenda

• Actions from meeting 95 (Steve)
• Component development
  • ICAT (Steve)
  • ICAT Manager (Alex)
  • Python-icat (Rolf)
  • IDS (Steve)
    • FUSE (Alex)
    • Globus transfer (Frazer)
    • SmartClient (Steve)
    • WebDAV (Kevin)
  • TopCAT (Jody)
  • IJP (Brian R)
  • ICAT Dashboard (Alex)
  • Multi-container support (Steve)
  • Installation (Steve)
• Face to Face meeting for 2016 (Steve)
• Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
• AOB (Any)

Present: Peter , Steve, Jody, Brian R, Brian M, Rolf, Tom, Shelly and Andrew

Apologies: Andy and Milan

Action 95.0 The requirements were successfully circulated to the ICAT group.

Action 94.0 Jody created a formal release of TopCat V2.0.0. This was successfully released onto Diamond and out to the community.

Action 94.1 All the requirements for the Dashboard have been now been gathered and uploaded onto GitHub.

• Steve reported that there are currently two things that are preventing the release of ICAT 4.7. Firstly, the possible addition of an extra call to see if a user is still currently logged in. Secondly, the load balancing with multiple ICATs which is potentially being caused by Apache timeouts.
• The release of IDS 4.6 is very close to release however there is one small issue that is holding it up. This issue is to do with the current getSize call now taking minutes. Steve has been given access to the machines that are presenting this behaviour so the problem can be explored further.
• Brian reported that he and Becky are working on changes towards the IJP. Becky has presented some new mock ups to Octopus which have been accepted. Brian has also been thinking about how to support the Octopus requirement for versions on dataset collections.
• Alex reported that the Dashboard is nearly completion from its initial requirements. The next stage is releasing a snapshot  so that people can have a go with it.
• Steve spoke about the upcoming ICAT face to face. There was a discussion on the schedule and how it could possibly play out over the two days.
• Rolf reported that he has been playing around with Docker and explained what he might do with it going forward.
• Peter and Shelly explored an idea about having a more abstract layer onto of the ICAT API to shield the consumers of their ICAT from any schema/API changes. There was a following short discussion on possible alternatives and the use case for an extra

layer.

Item	Description	Assigned
96.0	Assign screencast role for the TopCAT demo	Tom
96.1	Release a snapshot of the Dashboard	Alex/Steve
92.2	Provide information on Octopus’s use and potential future use of ICAT components.	Jianguo
74.0	Look into JDBC connector resilience with Wildfly	Steve