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

• Move www.inf to new technology - signed off
• web based student password portal - no change, not signed off
  • Work remains to be done, stated in final report as "we should do this".
• Deployment of TiBS to self managed machines - signed off
  • Blog article still to be done, reminder that publication/announcement is pre-requisite to sign off.
• Evaluating UniDesk - no change, signed off
  • the final report is missing including effort taken etc.
  • the evaluation document should be referred to in the computing plan.

5. New Proposed Projects

None.

6. System Blog Articles

• Prometheus - Toby
• TiBS - Craig

7. AOB

None.

-- TimColles - 08 Jun 2012