Project Development Meeting (IF-4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2011-12-07

Present: Alastair, Craig, Gordon, Graham, Roger, George, Neil, Chris, Iain, Ian, Stephen, Tim (convenor and minutes), Toby

Apologies: Alison

1. Minutes of last meeting

Accepted.

2. Matters arising

Update on actions from last meeting.

• inf-unit SL6 desktop/development
  • Check what used perl-krb5-admin. We still need it for Prometheus among other things. There has been an API change. It is no longer maintained. We could take it over. Stephen has CPAN access. [Action Stephen]
• Announce with blog article the new "longjob" script. [Action Craig]
• Teaching/Research Software Requirements Framework
  • Fork remaining work into new project so this can be signed off. Done.
• Chase Simon for account lifecycle code. Done.

New actions from this meeting.

• Implement print quotas via Pcounter
  • Need end-user queue monitoring and job removal. [Action Craig]
• loghost implementation
  • Add into project somewhere support for directory per-host structure. [Action George]
• Move www.inf to new technology
  • Need a DR plan for www.inf. [Action Neil]
• Prometheus: migration to new database feeds
  • Arrange discussion on UUID and username handling, [Action Toby]
• Prometheus: enable account lifecycle
  • We should have a design document and technical talk. [Action Toby]

3. Approved Projects

See Activity with annotated comments from meeting.

4. Project Status Changes

• Wake-on-LAN - Signed Off
• Further AFS development and automation - Signed Off
• SL6 RAT packages - Signed Off
• Migration of Mailing Lists to Central Service - Dropped
• Introduction of Drupal as the new commodity WCMS - now in Implementation
• KDC upgrade to 1.9 - now in Implementation

5. New Proposed Projects

None.

6. System Blog Articles

• Theon - Tim
• Prometheus - Toby
• LongJob - Craig

7. AOB

None.

-- TimColles - 06 Mar 2012