Meeting Notes for 18 February 2008

Action Item

• Liz, Phong, Eric - get metadata integration done.
• Liz's top ten observations to TomL

Marge's Concerns

• Reports needed by Tuesday night!
  • Dale, Dan, TomL and Phong didn't sent in the weekly status report.
• How long to clean up LO and milestone issues (2.3.3)?
• New pretest/posttest - when?
• Which tests are being pushed out?
• It ain't done until it's in tested, working and in production.

Beta Deadlines

• Cosmic: Week of 9 March
  • Pre/posttest, execution controls, tutorials must be done.
  • Serious concerns that some teachers are starting now -> losing teachers for the beta.
• LIGO: Week of 30 March

Branching

• How do we manage to keep the assembly line rolling?
  • The one giant SVN repository may be holding back elements
  • LIGO/Bluestone's push may be blocked by Cosmic code right now.
• Rollout on www12 first, then www18.

Cosmic

• New execution controls need testing.
  • Bob thinks they look okay in his cursory testing
  • More testing.
• Decide between bugfixing and the critical 9 March features.
• Pre-/post-test, Phong is finalizing old bugfixes and prioritizing getting this done.

LIGO

• Branch before/after SWIFT-Bluestone (1.1, 1.2, &c)?
• Tutorial is being worked on.
  • Embedded into the wiki.
• Phong - look at the Apache Commons-HTTP package to get integration started up.

CMS

• Dan has been asked to get some of the results with ROOT instead of OGRE.
• Need to go through the full testing/production process.

Future eLabs

• IceCube is interested.
• Concern that NSF will look at an incomplete and/or beta project and be unhappy.