Meeting 03
ICAT Steering Group Meeting #3
9th December 2015 15:00GMT
Video/Phone meeting (Bluejeans)
Attendance
- Steve Fisher (SF), STFC, Scientific Computing
- Tom Griffin (TG), STFC, Scientific Computing
- Andy Goetz (AG), ESRF
- Milan Prica (MP), ELETTRA
- Shelly Ren (SR), SNS
- Alun Ashton (AA), Diamond
Apologies
- Rolf Krahl, HZB
- Brian Matthews, STFC, Scientific Computing
1. Welcome AG welcomed those present. Apologies were received from Rolf Krahl and Brian Matthews.
2. Actions of the previous meeting
No. | Detail | Resp. | Status |
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2.1 | Add the steering committee terms of reference to the icatproject website | TG | Done |
2.2 | Update the ToR to include a section on voting | TG | Not Done |
2.3 | Ask ELETTRA if they wish to continue on the Steering committee | AG | Done- Milan is ELETTRA's representive |
2.4 | Check with CLF/LSF that they are correctly represented | BM | TG to discuss with BM and CLF |
2.5 | Invite HZB to join the steering committee | AG | Complete – Rolf is HZB's representative |
2.6 | Contact PSI, DESY, ALBA, MAXLab and ESS about their involvement in the project and committee | AG | Done. |
2.7 | Write a general note on criteria for membership of the steering committee | TG | Not done |
2.8 | Move all ICAT projects to Apache v2 licence and GitHub | SF | Done |
2.9 | Update the roadmap and dates, and circulate | SF | Done |
2.10 | Write a specification of external authorization service | SR | Not done |
2.11 | Ask communications for help to review web site | TG | SCD has recruited an impact manager. TG to discuss with them |
2.12 | Arrange the next meeting for 6 months time (tele/video-conference) | TG | Done |
3. Review of membership
No business
4. Status of Components
See Steve's slides
Shelly asked about Dashboard – management information
Shelly asked about Glassfish and Wildfly – answer – both will be
supported.
5. Roadmap
See slides
Move to Wildfly/hibernate testing revealed issues in the existing code.
Facility requests/comments
Shelly: SNS is working on automatic roll-out via Puppet to help ease
rollout. Will be shared via GitHub.
Tom – We should consider the role of Docker in releasing and running
ICAT.
Andy – data policy will be rolled out at ESRF; Request to embed DOI
issuing in ICAT/TopCAT.
Shelly – documentation is a major issue;
Andy – suggested a workshop could spend 1/2 day fixing documentation;
Globus: Tom explained Globus; Andy reported that CERN move all data with FTS3 and it could be integrated in ICAT, it is percieved to be even easier to use than Globus.
Cloud/Docker – it is possible to build whole VM, but fairly
uninteresting. It is better to package individual components – could
lead to a more scalable system.
Shelly – install has been too fragile and unclear errors in the past.
7. Website
ICATProject.org had been 'hacked' The root cause was probably simply a
weak password. Steve has since hardened security significantly.
8. Review of ICAT resources
No business
9. AOB.
No business
10. Next meeting/Developer meeting
It was agreed that the next SC meeting should be face-to-face and
Colocated with NoBUGS2016 in Copenhagen.
A developer meeting will be held at the same time.
New Actions
No. | Detail | Resp. |
---|---|---|
2.2 | Update the ToR to include a section on voting | TG |
2.4 | Check with CLF/LSF that they are correctly represented | TG & BM |
2.7 | Write a general note on criteria for membership of the steering committee | TG |
2.10 | Write a specification of external authorization service | SR |
2.11 | Ask communications for help to review web site | TG |