Project Development Meeting (IF-4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2011-06-06
Present: George, Gordon, Neil, Iain, Ian, Alastair, Toby, Graham, Chris, Tim (convener and minutes)
1. Minutes of last meeting
Accepted.
2. Matters arising
Update on actions from last meeting.
- 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. First one done, second pending on discussion with Stuart. Just a project to cover FreeNX and tidy all these projects up. [Action Alastair/Iain]
- Redevelop User Documentation
- All units to bring documentation projects to implementation. [Action All Units]
- Introduction of Drupal as the new commodity WCMS
- Produce default drupal installation header with php dependencies. Done.
- Prometheus: enable account lifecycle
- Chase. Alastair chased without response. Will take the more general issue of University owned data being held solely on personal machines to CCPAG. [Action Alastair]
- Account reconciliation
- Activity report to include a countdown on remaining to go. [Action Alison]
- Collaborative LaTeX System - Remedial Work
- Try a certificate chain corrected for SSL/TLS anomalies? A bug report has been created.
- Web search front end to package repository
- Enhancements suggested were clickable links, using pre around package descriptions, listing i586, search that lists by group. [Action Roger]
- Review roles mechanism
- Add a milestone for producing the report. [Action Roger]
- Link in wiki discussion page to project description. [Action Roger]
New actions from this meeting.
- The Perl-AFS module is becoming a significant blocker now to many SL6 upgrades (specficially in Services, Infrastructure and MPU). Need to raise the priority of fixing this with MPU. [Action Alastair]
- The following projects were signed-off: Move www.inf to new technology, Deployment of TiBS to self managed machines. Take to CEG for ratification. [Action Tim]
- Evaluating UniDesk
- Write final report. [Action Alison]
- Publish evaluation report to CCPAG and link report into computing plan as evidence for decision to not migrate. [Action Alastair]
3. Approved Projects
See
Activity with annotated comments from meeting.
4. Project Status Changes
5. New Proposed Projects
None.
6. System Blog Articles
- Prometheus - Toby
- TiBS - Craig
7. AOB
None.
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