Meeting Minutes December 2, 2010
Attendees: Heather Kelly, Jana and Gregg Thayer, Tracy Usher, Tony Waite
Tony provided the current state of things. In August/September much work was done. Started by looking over the list of unresolved references in offline software provided by Tracy, and figured out what FSW packages are involved in satisfying them. Joanne also helped out by providing a script showing which packages we grab to create our OBF external library. Tony pointed out that we have been including a whole bunch of libraries that we do not need, such as task communications. Tony and company worked to find a "cleave" point to cut down on the packages offline needs. This was fairly successful and where we previously used 19 FSW packages, we are now down to 10. A sandbox has been set up. The code building has been updated to support rhel++ platforms and then they plowed through the 10 packages. Most of the changes were trivial. CMT requirements files were updated to handle new targets, and gcc 4.1 requires the use of < > instead of "" in the include statements. A test build still needs to be done.
Tony reports that they have a way to back propagate to prior builds, back as far as 1-1-3 should be possible. This suits offline just fine, as we are still currently using B1-1-3.
Further progress has been held up by other pressing FSW upgrades and EXO work.
What is left to do? Haven't yet gone through the data packets, get things into the LAT testbed and make sure things haven't broken, JJ would like to retrofit some of the test programs for rhel4 & 5 to make sure they still function. Tony suggests that we need a month of his, JJ and Owen's time. The remaining work is "grunt work", the real hurdles have been overcome.
Jana asked when Tony expects we could get a month of his, JJ and Owen's time, and we suspect around February/March. We'd also like to get some of Tracy's attention at that time to help test things out on the offline side. Tracy pointed out that there is a Pisa workshop in mid-February, but other than that, that timeline sounds feasible.
The meeting ended with an internal goal of delivering an updated FSW to offline by the end of February.
The current progress is very promising and should allow offline to handle a potential migration of GlastRelease to RHEL5 by the end of 2011.
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