Planning for Ganga 2013

Indico agenda

Items from the Birmingham meeting

• new output handling mechanism
• postprocessors, checkers, notifier
• creation of directories in the workspace on demand
• move plugins that are no longer maintained to a legacy area
• Make bootstrap process lighter (I don't know the status of this)
• RPM installations (Mike said this is ready, should give more details like twiki, etc.)
• Metadata for jobs and tasks (via comment attribute)

Review of activities

Core (Ivan, Mike, Mark, Patrick)

• output files
• post processors, checkers, notifier
• Ganga service
• Tasks into Core
• Updates to Task for OutputFiles & Post Processor stuff
• basic blacklist/WMS style service
• RPM installations
• Code review

ATLAS (Mark, Johannes)

• Implementing OutputFile stuff
• Add post processor stuff
• Tasks on cmd line
• Code review

LHCb (Alex, Patrick, Ulrik)

• new output handling - DiracFile and changes for SandboxFile
• separation of Dirac and LHCb packages
• todo ... fill it please

Other experiments

• SNO++
• T2K

Documentation

• Reviewed and updated with the release of Ganga 6
• other ideas?

Testing

• still takes long to run all tests although GangaAtlas and GangaPanda run asynchroniously
• shema testing added , new pages for it and for the slowest tests
• Core: 290/25, Atlas: 9/7, LHCb: 90/14, Dirac: 19/6, Panda: 5/4, Robot: 34/0
• works but hard to maintain and extend, in longer term requires a reimplementation (Kuba from old plannings)

Release manager schedule (Ulrik)

Top 5 Savannah items

• XXX open ones
  • • Atlas: XX
    • Core: XX
    • LHCb: XX
• some outstanding examples:

Consolidation

• Overview of service structure at CERN (SVN, test accounts, monitoring services, ...) (Mike)
• Pieces of code or external dependencies to retire

New developments

ATLAS new output file type

Generic input handling

New credentials system

Update of .gangarc file to preserve old changes

Provision of default templates

other ideas