Project Development Meeting (IF-4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2011-04-04

Present: Roger, Craig, Iain, Gordon, Alison, Ian, George, Chris, Tim (convenor and minutes)

Apologies: Alastair, Toby, Neil, Graham

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 It is no longer maintained.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. Done.
• Implement print quotas via Pcounter
  • Need end-user queue monitoring and job removal. [Action Craig]
• Virtualised DICE
  • Fork two projects: to address "staff" local desktop usage to run some kind of sub-DICE; to address DICE anywhere by VM (laptops and at home) and DICE anywhere by FreeNX (for IS labs as VM is not a solution here) but need academic confirmation of actual goal. [Action Iain]
• Redevelop User Documentation
  • Add that this needs to deliver a "maintained service" into the project plan. Done.
• Simple KVM service
  • Add hosting of SL5 guests. Done.
• School Database Revamp: Phase 1B & 2B
  • Add some milestones. Done.
• Add mini-project to MPU list to close use of CVS for DICE/LCFG software, migrating remainder to SVN. [Action Alastair]

New actions from this meeting.

• Monitoring system upgrade
  • Annotate project description or add to final report brain dump of ideas for improvement. [Action Ian]

3. Approved Projects

See Activity with annotated comments from meeting.

4. Project Status Changes

• OpenLDAP 2.4 Upgrade - Ian - to Implementation
• Prometheus: migration to new database feeds - Toby - Signed off
• Monitoring system upgrade - Ian - Signed off
  • Annotate project description or add to final report brain dump of ideas for improvement.
• Centralised logging - George - Signed off

5. New Proposed Projects

None.

6. System Blog Articles

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

7. AOB

None.

-- TimColles - 08 May 2012