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-#summary Recent ICAT collaboration meetings
-
-
-= Record of actions from ICAT collaboration meetings up to meeting 74 =
-
-Later meetings are recorded at
http://icatproject.org/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/
-
-*Contents*
-<wiki:toc max_depth="2" />
-
-
-== Meeting 74 - 29 May 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 73 (Steve)
- * Steering Group (Tom or any other member)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * IDS development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes ===
-
-Present: Kunal, Alistair, Wayne, Kevin, Tom, Milan, Steve
-
-Apologies: Anton, Rolf, Shelly
-
-Action 73.0 - Tom has sent a note around about DOIs and has already
received one reply.
-
-Action 73.1 - Kunal reported his Wildfly findings - primarily the need for
a java:/ in front of a field in the persistence.xml. Steve then reported
that he had managed to install an ICAT with one authenticator but that
testicat would not run properly because the published wsdl was a little
different and meant that it was not possible to use SUDS to create a
credential object - so logging in was not possible. Steve commented that in
may respects Wildfly is more regular than Glassfish and that the support on
the forum is excellent. Having demonstrated that there appear to be no
major problems he will take this work further at some later date with the
intention of updating the setup script to modify the glassfish version of
the .war file and to deploy it on wildfly. Kunal has done some work
preparing scripts but does not have the time currently. Steve has also
tried TomEE+ but found that this was harder to get started with. Probably
work on TomEE+ will be delayed for much longer as Wildfly appears to be a
viable alternative to Glassfish. Tom asked for JDBC connector resilience
with Wildfly to be checked.
-
-Action 73.2 - Tom has sent around details of Balsamiq.
-
-Action 72.5 - Tom is tidying up the rules and will then share them
-
-Action 71.3 - Alistair said that he did not intend to carry out this
action. Milan suggested that a round table at the forthcoming PanData
workshop could address this. The workshop is before the next meeting so the
action will be removed.
-
-Tom reported on the ICAT Steering Group which had its first meeting last
week.The main items of discussion were the ToR and the choice of chairman.
The meeting has not yet chosen a chairman. TopCAT was also discussed. The
consensus was that TopCAT would be needed but that two labs still needed to
have their own bespoke interface as well.The work of the group will be
public and the ToR (once finalised) and the minutes of the meetings will
appear on icatproject.org.
-
-Steve reported on ICAT development. The 4.3.3-SNAPSHOT was made available
around the end of April for both server and client. Note that the updated
documentation for the client is with the client as the server and client
are now released separately. No feedback has been received yet. Work on
producing a RESTful interface covering at least import and export has
started. As a consequence of a chnage made to facilitiate deployment on
Wildlfy icat will now be packaged as a .war file instead of a .ear file.
This has fixed the problem reported earlier on deploying a RESTful
interface side by side with a SOAP interface.
-
-Steve also reported on the IDS development for which a snapshot is also
available. Rolf has deployed in but found that had disabled the background
data checking. Steve hopes that this can be restored but at a level where
it does not have too big an impact. A change is being made to support file
uploads from TopCAT using POST.
-
-Wayne then reported on TopCAT. The remaining work preventing the next
release is the file upload. The file can be uploaded but he is not able to
see whether or not the operation was successful because of the same-origin
policy enforced by the browser. He is lookign for a work-around. Next week
he plans to use Balsamiq to mock up a new TopCAT interface with the hope
that it can be shown at the forthcoming PanData workshop to attract
feedback.
-
-Tom reported that he had been working with Kevin to fix a problem when the
Oracle RAC nodes go down and no failover takes place. The solution should
appear in the installation scripts or at least be documented. Tom also
reported that as a test he had tried deleting all the investigations for an
instrument and that it took about a second for each investigation (which is
the top of a tree of course) so he resorted to a direct operation on the
database.
-
-There were no AOB items.
-
-
-=== Actions ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned ||
-|| 74.0 || Look into JDBC connector resilience with
Wildfly || Steve ||
-|| 74.1 || Document or implement in setup script the JDBC connector fix
for Glassfish/Oracle || Kevin or Steve ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve ||
-
-== Meeting 73 - 24 April 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 72 (Steve)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Alternatives to Glassfish (Any)
- * Issuing DOIs for ICAT (Tom)
- * ICAT roadmap update (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 73 ===
-Present: Steve, Wayne, Kunal, Tom, Shelly
-
-Apologies: Milan, Anton, Rolf
-
-The meeting startup was delayed by about 10 minutes because of mistakes in
setting up a laptop at RAL.
-
-Action 72.0 - Circulate likely time-scales for the items on the current
road map is no longer relevant as a new roadmap - with dates - will be
discussed in this meeting - Closed
-
-Action 72.1 - Kunal had organised a Hangout familiarisation meeting last
week - Closed
-
-Action 72.2 - The IDS plugin interface was discussed in Dub with SSIlin
and the views of Christophe accepted - Closed
-
-Action 72.3 - Tom explained that Alistair had had some misconfiguration -
Closed
-
-Action 72.4 - Fixed in 4.3.3 - Closed
-
-Steve reported on the 4.3.3 SNAPSHOTs of the server and client. Shelly
asked about the need to use Glassfish 4. Steve explained that Glassfish 4
was used for testing and that it allowed the deployment order of components
to be defined but that version 3 of Glassfish should still work.
-
-Wayne reported that the next TopCAT release was delayed by about a month.
Various bug fixes had been made but the upload facility was not yet
complete.
-
-Kunal has started looking at !WildFly as an alternative container. He will
report next month.
-
-Tom explained his ideas about issuing DOIs for the ICAT software. He will
put this into a posting in order to get feedback on the desired granularity
- Action
-
-Steve explained the updated roadmap. A couple of small changes were
suggested and having reassured Tom that nothing had been removed besides
giving consideration to integration of ICE into TopCAT and the construction
of a federation service there was agreement that the updated roadmap - with
the two extra changes from the meeting should replace the existing roadmap,
but that the existing one be preserved on the web site to show progress.
Changes to multi-ICAT searching were discussed, including providing mockups
of the proposed designs.
-
-Tom reported that Kevin had been updating their ICAT 4.3.2 to use
Glassfish 4. He had had some problems with certificates.
-
-Shelly asked about the date of the next meeting. It is normally held on
the last Thursday of the month - so in this case the 29th May.
-
-=== Actions 73 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned ||
-|| 73.0 || Send round a proposal for ICAT
DOIs || Tom ||
-|| 73.1 || Report on issues porting
to !WildFly || Kunal ||
-|| 73.2 || Send around details of Balsamiq
mockups || Tom ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve ||
-
-
-== Meeting 72 - 27 February 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 71 (Steve)
- * Meeting technology (Kunal)
- * Meeting in Dublin in March (Alistair)
- * ICAT roadmap (Steve)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Coordination of IDS plugins (Andy/Christophe)
- * Release and SV for Pandata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-
-=== Notes 72 ===
-Present: Milan, Shelly, Ivan, Alistair, Christophe, Anton, Kunal, Tom,
Wayne and Steve
-
-Apologies: Rolf
-
-Action 71.0 - there has not been much progress yet with the preparation of
the Dublin meeting besides essentials such as a room to meet in. This will
be rectified over the next few weeks. It will not appear on the actions
list as there will be no further meeting before Dublin. Tom volunteered Jay
to talk about integration of ICAT and Mantid and also to talk about his
experience (as someone new to ICAT) with the ICAT API.
-
-Action 71.1 - this has now been completed and the first version finalised.
Steve will circulate a note with probable time scales for the items on the
road map. The time scales may become part of the map when it is next
revised.
-
-Action 71.2 - a request has been sent in to the icat-support list Wayne is
in discussion with Milan about it. This will be closed.
-
-Action 70.6 - PanData release 003 has exhibited no problems. This action
will be closed.
-
-Action 70.9 - Kunal has been investigation alternative meeting
technologies. He has tried a meeting using Google Hangouts with Shelley and
Milan and all were favourably impressed. It was noted that it did take a
little while to get used to but the functionality was excellent. Kunal will
register people as required and will set up a test meeting for anyone who
wants to familiarise themselves with the technology so that the next ICAT
collaboration meeting progresses smoothly. This will be in a around two
weeks time.
-
-Agenda items except where covered by actions:
-
-Steve reported on ICAT progress and the problems he has been having trying
to add a servlet to the icat ear file. He will work around the problem for
now with a SOAP interface for the lucene communication.
-
-Wayne reported that he had been discussing the behaviour of TopCAT with
Milan. The next release of TopCAT will include data upload.
-
-Christophe explained that the IDS plugin mechanism did not give him the
flexibility he needed. He will send a note to Steve explaining what he
needs.
-
-The PanData SV has shown up a problem accessing the ISIS ICAT. This may be
a firewall problem somewhere as it used to work. Alistair will follow up on
any possible firewall issues. In about 3 week's time the SV will
concentrate on Umbrella.
-
-Tom asked if anybody had seen any odd behaviour with case sensitivity of
searches.
-
-Tom will submit his authz rules to the contrib directory.
-
-Alistair has discovered proxyvole to search for and use existing proxy
configurations. This will be used in the next SV.
-
-Christophe asked how to record which instrument a dataset is related to
now that we have a many to many relation between investigation and
instrument. Besides using a DatasetParameter no other suggestion was
offered.
-
-=== Actions 72 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned || Status ||
-|| 72.0 || Circulate likely time-scales for the items on the current road
map || Steve || New ||
-|| 72.1 || Organise a Hangout familiarisation
meeting || Kunal ||
New ||
-|| 72.2 || Send note to Steve about the shortcomings of the IDS plugin
interface || Christophe || New ||
-|| 72.3 || Understand why SV's fail when ISIS ICAT is
contacted || Alistair || New |
|
-|| 72.4 || Raise an issue on case sensitivity of
searches || Tom ||
New ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
New ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair || Pending ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Pending ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Pending ||
-
-== Meeting 71 - 31 January 2014 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 70 (Steve)
- * Meeting technology (Alistair)
- * Meeting in Dublin in March (Alistair)
- * ICAT roadmap (Steve)
- * Status of recent releases (Steve)
- * Coordination of IDS plugins (Andy/Christophe)
- * Release and SV for Pandata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 71 ===
-Present: Rolf, Shelley, Milan, Alistair, Kunal and Steve
-
-Apologies: Tom
-
-Kunal had looked at a number of choices including GoToMeeting and
Teamviewer. Evo was also suggested as another possibility. He will try out
one or more products with Milan and Shelley and report back.
-
-Alastair explained that the current Dublin meeting agenda was currently a
clone of that for the the last meeting. Steve requested that any site
reports should highlight any problems.
-
-Steve went through the draft Road Map. A lot of useful ideas were put
forward which will be reflected in the map:
- * Documentation improvements are needed for search and authorization
(doing it efficiently)
- * Rolf has data export/import for his python code but it is quite slow.
He uses yaml syntax with ids replaced by the uniqueness constraint fields
which is similar to what Steve had in mind.
- * It was suggested again that it would be good to isolate the federation
part of Topcat. This might be a service in its own right.
- * There was a suggestion that ICE should be incorporated into TopCAT.
-
-PaNData service verification will start tomorrow.
-
-Alistair said that he planned to produce a report on ICAT from PaNData.
Steve asked him to make sure that problems were promptly reported in the
usual way (the appropriate googlecode issue list) so that any issues could
be addressed as soon as possible.
-
-Milan had found a problem with TopCAT for which he will submit a bug report
-
-=== Actions 71 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned || Status ||
-|| 71.0 || Organise the Dublin
meeting ||
Alistair || In progress ||
-|| 71.1 || Update road map with ideas from
meeting || Steve ||
New ||
-|| 71.2 || Submit TopCAT bug
report ||
Milan || New ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair || New ||
-|| 70.6 || Test a collection of ICAT parts as Pandata release
003 || Alistair || In progress ||
-|| 70.9 || Investigate alternative meeting
technology || Kunal || In
progress ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Pending ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Pending ||
-
-== Meeting 70 - 12 December 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 69 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 and related parts such as authn (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Wayne)
- * Training and SV for Panadata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 70 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Wayne, Alistair, Shelly, Tom
-
-The actions were reviewed and their stati updated/
-
-The face to face meeting for 2014 has been set for 24-25 March. The venue
is the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin.
-
-There will be releases of ICAT, Topcat, Authn_shib and IDS around the end
of 2013, or the beginning of 2014.
-
-A collection of ICAT parts will be tested as a group and adopted by
Pandata as part of the Pandata software stack release in January 2014.
-
-There is a need to investigate the use of ICATs sharing a single lucene
index.
-
-There was discussion about the ICAT collaboration meetings. It was agreed
to reduce the frequency of meetings from fortnightly to monthly. It was
agreed to investigate the use of alternative technology for the meetings.
The present arrangements with voice only connections in a telephone
conference does not support visual means of communication.
-
-=== Actions 70 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 70.0 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 70.1 || See Juan about the ICAT meeting in
Dublin || TG ||
Done ||
-|| 70.2 || Close actions 66.04 and
64.02 || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 70.3 || Release ICAT
4.3.1 ||
SF || Done ||
-|| 70.4 || Release update to the SNAPSHOT IDS and the python
api || SF || Done
||
-|| 70.5 || Release Topcat
1.11 ||
SF || Done ||
-|| 70.6 || Test a collection of ICAT parts as Pandata release
003 || AM || In
progress ||
-|| 70.7 || Investigate 2 icats sharing a lucene
index || SF || To be
considered as part of the Road Map||
-|| 70.8 || Release the shibboleth authenticator for use by
Umbrella || SF ||
Done ||
-|| 70.9 || Schedule a set of meetings for ICAT in 2014 and investigate
alternative technology || Kunal || In progress - transferred to
Kunal ||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 69 - 31 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 68 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 69 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Frazer, Alistair, Kunal, Milan
-
-Apologies: Shelly, Jamie, Christophe, Tom
-
-Steve reported that he had talked to Bill and Stefan in ISIS about
Umbrella authentication. He also reported that he had exchanged emails
with Bjorn at PSI. He said that he was making progress, but it was not
possible to say when it would work, as completion is dependent on the
collaboration of the group.
-
-Steve reported that ICAT 4.3.0 was now available and he had only on
reported fault.
-
-Steve reported that he was now working on IDS, and that he was confident
that the IDS release will be ready in November 2013.
-
-Steve reported that Wayne is making good progress with Topcat. It is
expected that Topcat 2.0 will be available in November 2013 and include
support for IDS.
-
-Frazer reported that ISIS now has ICAT 4.3 available with Topcat 1.9.
-
-Steve reported that ISIS now has ICAT 4.3 available with Topcat 1.9.
-
-Milan reported that SV6 is due on 1 November and that the tests are
running correctly at Elettra.
-
-Alistair reported that the materials for the training course on in the
installation of the Pandata software stack are almost ready and that the
course will take place next week.
-
-Alistair reported that good progress was being made with the ingester for
ESRF and that ingestion into the production ICAT at ESRF will start during
November.
-
-(Ed's note - Jamie sent a report that ILL has recruited an additional
engineer to work on the ILL catalogue. The engineer will start work in
November).
-
-=== Actions 69 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 69.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 69.01 || Make use of the new ISIS ICAT in SV6 on 1
November || AM || Done
||
-|| 69.02 || Make use of the new DLS ICAT in SV6 on 1
November || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 69.03 || Discuss that training course for Pandata and make changes to
the materials || AM/SF || Done ||
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || Done ||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly ||
Done ||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || Cancelled ||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 68 - 17 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 67 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Wayne)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 68 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Tom, Wayne, Frazer, Alistair, Kunal
-
-Tom reported that the date of the Spring meeting was still being discussed.
-
-As discussed at the previous meeting actions 61.01 and 60.03 have been
dropped - they will be done at some stage.
-
-There had been a lot of useful feedback on the ICAT 4.3.0 snapshots
resulting in a number of improvements. The only remaining issue was the
inability to install it on Glassfish 4.
-
-There has been some progress with the IDS but not much as Steve has been
working mostly on ICAT. He plans to make some changes to the API to make it
more convenient to use.
-
-Wayne reported that there had been a review of TopCAT issues out of which
the items that should be fixed for the next release were identified. He is
working on interfacing to ICAT 4.3.0 but does not have one installed. Tom
suggested he should use the ISIS one. Tom will also check to see if he has
anything else to add to the issue list.
-
-=== Actions 68 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 68.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done ||
-|| 68.01 || Check that the list of requirements for
Topcat || TG || Done ||
-|| 68.02 || Check that the topcat43 plugins works with ICAT
4.3.0 || WC || Done ||
-|| 68.03 || Get a credential from ISIS to access the ISIS
Topcat || WC || Done ||
-|| 68.04 || Talk to Bill and Stefan about Umbrella authentication plugin
for ICAT || SMF || Done ||
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly || .||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 67 - 3 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 66 (Steve)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 67 ===
-
-Present: Milan, George, Shelly, Steve, Tom, Wayne and Frazer
-
-It was noted that the date of the ICAT meeting in Spring next year is not
yet fixed. It should be done soon.
-
-It was suggested that actions 61.01 and 60.03 should be removed as they
will be done when they are ready and are not urgent.
-
-Tom reported on his work testing the ICAT4.3.0-SNAPSHOTs. There were still
some problems to be addressed with multiple rules. He suggested
-that the installation script might check for the EJBTimer. This is present
when Glassfish is installed but might have been deleted. He had been unable
to use the installation scripts on Windows.
-
-=== Actions 67 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 67.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || SMF || Done|
|
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM |
| .||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly || .||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Drop||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Drop||
-
-
-== Meeting 66 - 19 September 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 65 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Update from Pandata (Alistair)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 66 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Frazer (ISIS), Tom (ISIS), George
(Elettra), Milan (Elettra), Julien (ESRF), Shelly (SNS) and Steve (STFC)
-
-Apologies: Jamie (ILL)
-
-The date of the ICAT face to face meeting in 2014 was discussed. The
final Pandata meeting is scheduled for 29 March 2014 in Dublin to meet in
the same week as the RDA meeting in Dublin. The last three face to face
meetings in 2011 (Paris), 2012 (Grenoble) and 2013 (Lund) were schedule to
meet in the same week as a Pandata meeting. It was agreed that we would
defer a decision on the date until more information is available about a
successor project to Pandata. It is likely that ICAT-2014 will be in May
2014. We will try to settle the data by December 2013.
-
-Tom reported that a bug in NxIngest had been detected and corrected.
-
-Steve reported that the snapshots for ICAT 4.3 and related components are
available and he would like more feedback.
-
-Steve reported that progress on IDS 1.0 was good, and that it should be
available in October/November.
-
-Tom reported that Mantid now supports ICAT 4.2.
-
-Shelly reported that SNS is now investigating the use of ICAT with
autoreduction.
-
-Alistair reported that he is arranging a two day training course for
technical people in Pandata. The training will include the installation,
deployment and operations of the latest ICAT materials including their
integration with Apache. The training will also cover Topcat, IDS,
Umbrella.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-
-=== Actions 66 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 66.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
|
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM |
| .||
-|| 66.03 || Send a note to the icat collaboration about the training for
Pandata || AM ||
https://code.google.com/p/pandata/wiki/TrainingSwInstallation ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss autoreduction with Erica Yang and Shelly
Ren || AM || .||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || On-going||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-== Meeting 65 - 5 September 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 64 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 65 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Kevin (STFC), Tom (ISIS), Idrissou
(Soleil) and Steve (STFC)
-
-There has been an offer from ISIS to host the face to face meeting in
March 2014. It was agreed to accept this offer and the chairman thanked
Tom for the offer. The meeting is likely to be held in collaboration with
the final meeting of Pandata.
-
-Steve reported that progress on the collection of parts associated with
release of ICAT 4.3 was going well. There are a small number of
interdependencies. For example ICAT 4.3 requires a new version of
Icat-setup. The authn_db has also changed. There was a discussion of
detection of compatibilities. It was agreed to review these, following
experience of using the new versions of the parts.
-
-There were no issues with any production deployment. However Tom reported
that he was very keen to move to ICAT 4.3 as it solves some of his
difficulties.
-
-There was a question about the status of IDS. Steve reported the
technical work was going well, and that a version for comment would be
available in October. Tom asked that this version be available soon, even
if some advanced features for remote file systems are not supported.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-=== Actions 65 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 65.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
|
-|| 65.01 || Discuss the arrangements for ICAT 2014 with
Pandata || TG/AM || Done||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || On-going||
-|| 65.03 || Meet again on 19
September ||
All || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 64.03 || Make snapshots of ICAT 4.3.rc available for comment in
August || Steve || Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 64 - 8 Aug 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 63 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * ICAT F2F Meeting (Steve and Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 64 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Kevin (STFC), Tom (ISIS), Ivan (CCFE) and
Steve (STFC)
-
-As it is August, the meeting was quiet.
-
-Ivan from CCFE joined the conference for the first time. CCFE is the
Centre for Fusion Energy. We welcome CCFE to the collaboration.
-
-The Pandata meeting in Barcelona in September was discussed. It was noted
that there would NOT be a meeting about ICAT. However Steve offered to
host a web cast session in September where he would discuss the contents of
ICAT 4.3.
-
-It was agreed to invite members of the collaboration to offer to host a
face to face meeting of ICAT in March 2014.
-
-Steve discussed the status of ICAT 4.3 and reported that progress was
good. He will make a snapshot of the software and the documentation
available to interested parties later in August. Following that, he will
release ICAT 4.3. During September, he will host a webcast session to
discuss ICAT 4.3.
-
-There are no known problems with the production deployments.
-
-Ivan reported that he was making progress with ICAT. At the moment he is
investigating how to integrate ICAT with other meta data systems at CCFE.
-
-Steve reported that he intends to move www.icatproject.org to a new host
during August. The new host will be located within STFC and have a new IP
address. This change should not affect anyone using the resources such as
the maven repository on www.icatproject.org.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-=== Actions 64 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 64.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Alistair || Done||
-|| 64.01 || Invite invitations to host the ICAT collaboration meeting in
March '14 || Alistair || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 64.03 || Make snapshots of ICAT 4.3.rc available for comment in
August || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 63 - 25 July 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 62 (Chair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Feedback on new components (authn_simple, topcat 1.9, ice and
icat-setup (All)
- * Feedback on changes to query language, authz rules etc (All)
- * Feedback on guidelines for developers (All)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 63 ===
-
-Present: Juergen, Milan, George, Shelley, Tom, Brian, Kevin and Steve
(Chair)
-
-There was no progress on any of the actions.
-
-Steve: ICAT 4.3 is still progressing well. There is a problem in the MySQL
migration script. It is hoped that when this is converted to Oracle the
error may become apparent. It currently looks like a MySQL bug. Besides
this the only work left to do is the new query language and related authz
changes. Old style queries are being parsed and converted into the new JPQL
style. They will then be subject to the new authorization code. This means
that because the authz code is changing the data that comes back from
INCLUDE may change in 4.3. Some modifications to authz rules may be needed
to restore the old behaviour if so desired.
-
-Tom: A couple of feature requests for TopCAT have been submitted, ice and
icat-setup seem to work as advertised.
-
-Steve: Feedback on the query language changes had been received saying
that we should keep the old language for an extended period. This is to
avoid forcing people to change and because its simplicity is appreciated.
There seems to be no problem with this. Following a question from Tom, it
was explained that authz rules would be applied to included entities but
that a mechanism would be provided to say that it was always allowed to go
from one specific entity type to another: for example from Dataset to
Datafile.
-
-The developer guidelines were discussed briefly. Antony had requested by
e-mail the inclusion of something about logging. Tom questioned the need to
provide a python install script for the trivial installations, but agreed
that, if it were provided, then it should be in python and follow the
guidelines. Tom would also like to see some documentation on what the
scripts were doing. He was happy to have a verbose option to provide this.
-
-AOB: Earlier in the meeting Shelley had asked about the IDS - Steve
emphasised that though it had been made available to parts of !PanData it
was not yet a supported ICAT component. Juergen expressed an interest in
using !OpenId with ICAT however he has no spare effort at the moment to do
anything about it. Brian asked what was being done about organising the
ICAT part of the Barcelona meeting. Steve suggested that it should have two
parts: one relating to !PanData and a more general part. An action has been
added for Steve and Alistair.
-
-=== Actions 63 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 63.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Steve |
| Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about glassfish configuration to reduce https
overhead || Steve || Done||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || Alistair ||
ApacheAndGlassfish ||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-|| 63.01 || Plan the ICAT meeting in
Barcelona || Steve/Alistair|
| Done||
-
-== Meeting 62 - 11 July 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 61 (Chair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * New components (Steve)
- * Feedback on Topcat 1.9 Snapshot (All)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 62 ===
-
-Present: Daniel Salvat, Pablo Garcia, David Lopez, George Kourousias, Tom
Griffin and Steve Fisher (Chair)
-
-SMF: ICAT4.3 now needs two more things: schema changes with associated
scripts and enhanced query language. End of August still looks possible.
-
-Rolf Krahl's simple authenticator has been released and at some point a
class he has written to handle hashed passwords will also be used by the db
authenticator.
-
-A SNAPSHOT of TopCAT 1.9 has been made available - no feedback has been
received so far.
-
-Releases of ice (an ICAT Editor and icat-setup for editing authz related
tables) are imminent. Kevin will test them both before release.
-
-TG: ISIS is still using ICAT3.3 and is waiting for ICAT4.3 with the
enhanced query language to support more specific rules.
-
-GK: Umbrella will be part of the next PaNData verifications so will
probably need an umbrella authenticator.
-
-DS: Reminder about the Barcelona workshop which is expected to have two
satellite meetings: one on icat and and one on umbrella.
-
-=== Actions 62 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 62.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Steve ||
Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about glassfish configuration to reduce https
overhead || Steve || .||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || Alistair |
| Done||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 61 - 13 June 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 60 (Alistair)
- * Release conditions for products (Alistair)
- * Status of contribs (Alistair)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 61 ===
-
-We were pleased to have Milan join us again. He has been away from work
for a month following an operation on his wrist.
-
-Nicola informed us that he is going to leave ESRF in June to work in a
commercial organisation in Zurich. The chairman thanked Nicola for his
work with ICAT and wished him well in his new position.
-
-There was discussion about the appropriateness of the release conditions
which AM had added to the wiki. It was agreed that this would be discussed
again, for example when ICAT 4.3 is close to release.
-
-SF reported that progress with ICAT 4.3 is good; that free text search is
working and is very efficient; that consolidation of code is reducing the
volume of code, and making things simpler in the longer term.
-
-TG reported that he is working on a simple browser for ICAT. He will put
it into contrib when it is ready.
-
-SF reported that he has done some timing tests on the download component
of the IDS. This has led to changes in the implementation which ensures
that the cypher in SSL mode is set dynamically and this generally ensure
less time for the cypher.
-
-AM reported that GF 4 has been released and that he has deployed ICAT,
Authdb and Topcat on a GF 4 and that they appear to work correctly. There
was a problem trying to deploy the download component of IDS; as this is
not yet a supported product, this is a matter for development.
-
-AM reported that he had deployed ICAT with GF4 with an Apache front-end.
This work has been done at ESRF and will be used for the ESRF production
ICAT. The GF4 and the Apache communicate with one another using AJP.
There was a bug in GF 3 which meant that this did not work when using
https, due to an error in the GF which continued to use http, when it
should have used https. The bug has been fixed in GF 4. To verify that
the bug was due to GF3, having got ICAT to work with GF4, AM then tried
changing back to GF3, and the ICAT did not work.
-
-=== Actions 61 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 61.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || TG || .|
| -||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about the performance on the download component
of IDS || SF || .|| -||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || AM ||
Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 61 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || ILL ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 60 - 30 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 59 (Alistair)
- * Roadmap for ICAT 4.3 (Alistair)
- * Release conditions for ICAT 4.3 (Alistair)
- * Status of IJP (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Alistair)
- * Status of Topcat (Alistair)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 60 ===
-
-We were pleased to have Milan join us again. He has been away from work
for a month following an operation on his wrist.
-
-Ghita informed us that she is going to leave Diamond in June to take up an
academic position teaching Computer Science in a University. The chairman
thanked Ghita for her work with ICAT and wished her well in her new
position.
-
-Steve said that work on ICAT 4.3 was progressing well, with the
development of Notifications and Logging completed. He will deal with Free
text next. He said that when he completes the development of a feature, he
changes the status of the corresponding ticket to started. The ticket will
be closed when the feature is included in a release. If further work is
required following release, a new ticket will be created.
-
-Alistair reported that he had written notes about the release conditions
for ICAT and IDS. He will send an email to the mailing list inviting
comments.
-
-Steve reported that the IJP is now ready for deployment in LSF at STFC. A
paper has been written and will be presented at a conference in Zurich new
week. He agreed to finalise a release of this product and to make an
announcement.
-
-Steve reported that as Antony has left the project, we are short of
resources for the development and support of Topcat. We would very much
appreciate it, if one of our partners were to volunteer to support or
develop Topcat.
-
-Alistair reported that as Frazer has left the project, we have recruited a
student who will join for three months from the beginning of September.
His main task will be to prepare the IDS for release. We are expecting to
have Frazer working with the project team from September again. This will
provide continuity in the work with IDS.
-
-Alistair and Steve reported that STFC is going to recruit at least one
contractor for several months to support the ICAT related work until a
permanent replacement can be found for Antony.
-
-The meeting finished at 15:25 BST.
-
-=== Actions 60 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 60.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 60.01 || Add a page to the wiki about ICAT 4.3 and IDS 1.0 release
conditions || AM || Done|| -||
-|| 60.02 || Send a note to the mailing list about the notes on release
conditions || AM || Done|| -||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || SF || .|| -|
|
-|| 60.04 || Consider offering help to support or develop
Topcat || All || .|
| -||
-|| 60.05 || Make changes to the room booking at RAL for the ICAT
meetings || AM || Done|
| -||
-
-
-=== Attendance 60 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George K || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility |
| || + ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 59 - 16 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 58 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of anonymous authenticator (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Antony)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 59 ===
-
-Steve reported that Antony has now left the collaboration as he has a new
job within STFC SCD. Alistair was asked to make an announcement about the
availability of the technology preview of the IDS. Alistair reported that
the downloader part of the IDS had performed well during the service
verification on 10 May 2013.
-
-(Steve and Alistair reviewed the status of the materials for the IDS on 22
May 2013 and decided that the IDS is not ready for a technology preview.
There will be a student working on this from July, and we expect to have it
ready for preview by September).
-
-Steve reported that the anonymous authenticator is now available.
Alistair reported that he has successfully deployed it on one of the test
icats for Pandata.
-
-Kevin reported that he has deployed ICAT 4.2.5 in production for CLF at
RAL. This appears to have cured the problem of memory leak and improved
the reliability of ICAT.
-
-Kevin and Tom both reported that adding additional indexes to some of the
tables in the database has made a large difference to the time required for
queries. The response time is much lower, and it is much more consistent.
-
-There was discussion of how to implement index generation in ICAT 4.3.
There is not a standard way in SQL to tell a database to create indexes.
Furthermore, the tables which requires the indexes can vary from one
installation to another. There is a way to tell EclipseLink to generate
indexes in tables, but this does not work if a different persistence
provider is used. It was agreed to provide documentation on index
generation.
-
-Steve reported that adding the extensions to the query language for ICAT
to support the changes to the schema to be introduced in icat 4.3 is rather
complicated and would delay the availability of ICAT 4.3. It was agreed
that Steve should take the time to get it correct, and if it delays ICAT
4.3 until after the summer recess, this would be satisfactory. (There is a
requirement of Pandata that the changes to the schema of ICAT are required
by October 2013 - Ed).
-
-=== Actions 59 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 59.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 58.01 || Make an announcement about the technology preview of the
IDS || AM || Will not be done|| The IDS is not ready |
|
-
-=== Attendance 59 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||Pablo || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || IIL ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 58 - 2 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 57 (SMF)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (SMF)
- * Status of SV4 of Pandata (AM)
- * Status of CCFE (AM)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 58 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions and updated the status of actions.
-
-SMF stated that a 4.2.5 version of ICAT would be released to fix a
thread/memory leak related to the initialisation of log4j. He was reminded
that there may be a problem with the frequency of access to the sequence
table and that this might also go into 4.2.5.
-
-SMF stated that ICAT 4.3.0 would include the changes required by ISIS for
a more powerful query language supporting more complex authz rules.
-
-In AM's absence GK reported on PaNdata SV4 which will start next week and
be based on "Big V".
-
-AOB:
-
-SR reported that she was working with APS on a new pilot project
-
-SMF asked if there was any interest in a "File Authenticator". There
wasn't so it will not happen. The question then arose can we find out what
authenticators are present and what credentials they require. TopCAT can
manage without but at the expense of having to configure a plugin
correctly. A new requirement will be added.
-
-AW reported that there was good progress on Noris's admin interface to
TopCAT.
-
-It was reported that the Chinese Neutron Source have successfully deployed
an ICAT and TopCAT.
-
-Finally GKM reported that "Actors" had been added to DAWN.
-
-=== Actions 58 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 57.02 || Prepare a distribution of a technology preview of the Download
Manager || AW || Done|| -||
-|| 58.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || SMF || Done|
| -||
-|| 58.01 || Produce 4.2.5 release of
ICAT || SMF ||
Done|| - ||
-|| 58.02 || Add a requirement to be able to discover what authenticators
are present and what credentials they require. || SMF |
| Done|| Issue 122 ||
-
-
-=== Attendance 58 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba |
| || + ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 57 - 18 April 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 56 (Alistair)
- * Icat Data Server (IDS) development (Antony)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 57 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions from earlier meetings and updated the status
of actions.
-
-The meeting discussed the arrival of CCFE as a collaborator. Alistair
agreed to send a note to the collaboration about this. There is now a note
called InductionProcess on the wiki. The intention is to follow this
process and to enhance the note. The purpose of this is to ensure that new
partners get off to a good start. We look forward to having a
representative of CCFE attend one of these meetings.
-
-The meeting discussed the status of the reference implementation of the
IDS. One part of this is called the Download Manager. This is now in
pre-production with both the ISIS and DLS facilities. It will also be used
as part of the service verification which will be conducted by Pandata. It
was agreed to make a distribution of the download manager. This is a
technology preview, and should only be used for testing.
-
-As Steve Fisher is on vacation, the meeting did not discuss the status of
ICAT 4.3.
-
-Tom has created a google group called icat-...@googlegroups.com.
Alistair agreed to add a link to this group on http://www.icatproject.org.
-
-The meeting concluded after 20 minutes. A new record for brevity!
-
-=== Actions 57 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 57.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 57.01 || Inform the collaboration of the arrival of
CCFE || AM || Done||
http://www.ccfe.ac.uk||
-|| 57.02 || Prepare a distribution of a technology preview of the Download
Manager || AW || .|| -||
-|| 57.03 || Add a link to icat-issues on
http://www.icatproject.org || AM ||
Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 57 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||FB ||Frazer Barnsley || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 56 - 4 April 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 55 (Alistair)
- * Review of requirements for ICAT (Steve)
- * Review of requirements for ICAT related parts such as Topcat, IDS, IJP
(Steve)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Actions 56 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 56.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 56.01 || Arrange for copies of Pandata presentations to be
available || AM || Done||
https://code.google.com/p/icatproject/source/browse/#svn%2Fmeetings%2FPandataLund,
https://code.google.com/p/icatproject/source/browse/#svn%2Fmeetings%2FLund2013Talks|
|
-|| 56.02 || Add a paragraph to the requirements page about general
requirements || AM || Done|| Deployment, Ingestion,
Publishing, User office, Setup, Operations, Common standards||
-|| . || - PMH
interface ||
SMF || Done|| -||
-|| . || - Revision of XML
schema || SMF |
| Done|| -||
-|| . || - Additional indices in some
tables || SMF || Done|
| -||
-|| 56.03 || Make the priority of the requirement for filesystem interface
to ICAT, high || SMF || Done|| -||
-|| 56.04 || Create tickets for each of the ICAT requirements and link to
index page || SMF || Done|| -||
-|| 56.05 || Provide information about the memory leak in the logging to SN
et alia || TG || Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 56 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||NV ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||BM ||Brian Matthews || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 55 - 21 March 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52-54 (Alistair)
- * Discussion of the outcomes from Lund
- * Discussion of the content of ICAT 4.3
- * Discussion of the agenda for the collaboration meetings Spring 2013
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 55 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions from earlier meetings and updated the status.
-
-The meeting discussed the conference in Lund. It was generally agreed
that it was successful. A number of items are worthy of note:
-
- * Sites such as Alba may have to enhance the reference implementation of
IDS when it is available, to meet their requirements for data management;
- * There were presentations at the Pandata meeeting (such as Tom's on ICAT
and Umbrella integration) which should be made available to the ICAT
collaboration;
- * There should be a half day ICAT workshop added to the Pandata meeting
in Barcelona in September;
- * There will be a Pandata WP4 telco next week to discuss matters arising
from the Pandata meeting in Lund.
-
-The meeting discussed topics to be addressed in the next three months of
collaboration meetings - see the list above.
-
-The meeting finished at 15h35.
-
-=== Actions 55 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 55.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done|| -||
-|| 55.01 || Arrange for copies of Pandata presentations to be
available || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 55.02 || Arrange an ICAT workshop with the Pandata meeting at Alba in
September || AM/DS || On-going||
-||
-
-=== Attendance 55 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||NV ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||DS ||Daniel Salvat || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS |
| || + ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond |
| || + ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 54 - 7 March 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52-53 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Actions 54 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 54.00 || Document the
meeting ||
AM || Done|| -||
-|| 54.01 || Update the timetable for
Sweden2013 || AM |
| Done|| -||
-|| 54.02 || Send information about the conference venue to
SR || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.03 || Send Elettra status summary for presentation in Lund to
AM || MP || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.04 || Send one page template for status of a contrib to SR, TG,
SR || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.05 || Distribute the latest notes on the contents of icat
4.3 || SF || Done|
| -||
-
-
-=== Attendance 54 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DS ||Daniel Salvat || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 53 - 21 February 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 53 ===
-
-Actions 52.02, 52.06 and 52.10 have been completed
-
-Nothing else to report and no AOB.
-
-=== Attendance 53 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KL ||Krister Larsson || MAX ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 52 - 7 February 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 51 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Status of IDS reference implementation (Antony)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Attendance 52 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KL ||Krister Larsson || MAX ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || ILL ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-
-=== Notes 52 ===
-
-Steve reported that he had only a small amount of feedback about the
content of ICAT 4.3 and so he would post to the mailing list again.
-
-Shelly asked if people with experience of calling the ICAT API in C++
could provide advice on which package to use. Gsoap is a candidate.
-
-Krister asked that we add a note to the web site about lunch being
available before the ICAT meeting in Lund. He also said that he intends to
send out another announcement about the meeting in Lund. Krister said that
a representative of ESS would attend the ICAT workshop in Lund; he said
that ESS is a potential big user of ICAT.
-
-Jamie asked that changes be included in ICAT 4.3 to support ILL. He will
send a note to the mailing list about this.
-
-Antony and Frazer lead a discussion of the plans for IDS.
-
-Milan reported that he was working on a deliverable for WP4 of Pandata.
He reported that SV[2] was held on 1st February, but it had not been
possible to include meta-data ingestion in the verification.
-
-=== Actions 52 ===
-
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-= Record of actions from ICAT collaboration meetings up to meeting 74 =
-
-Later meetings are recorded at
http://icatproject.org/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/
-
-*Contents*
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-
-
-== Meeting 74 - 29 May 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 73 (Steve)
- * Steering Group (Tom or any other member)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * IDS development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes ===
-
-Present: Kunal, Alistair, Wayne, Kevin, Tom, Milan, Steve
-
-Apologies: Anton, Rolf, Shelly
-
-Action 73.0 - Tom has sent a note around about DOIs and has already
received one reply.
-
-Action 73.1 - Kunal reported his Wildfly findings - primarily the need for
a java:/ in front of a field in the persistence.xml. Steve then reported
that he had managed to install an ICAT with one authenticator but that
testicat would not run properly because the published wsdl was a little
different and meant that it was not possible to use SUDS to create a
credential object - so logging in was not possible. Steve commented that in
may respects Wildfly is more regular than Glassfish and that the support on
the forum is excellent. Having demonstrated that there appear to be no
major problems he will take this work further at some later date with the
intention of updating the setup script to modify the glassfish version of
the .war file and to deploy it on wildfly. Kunal has done some work
preparing scripts but does not have the time currently. Steve has also
tried TomEE+ but found that this was harder to get started with. Probably
work on TomEE+ will be delayed for much longer as Wildfly appears to be a
viable alternative to Glassfish. Tom asked for JDBC connector resilience
with Wildfly to be checked.
-
-Action 73.2 - Tom has sent around details of Balsamiq.
-
-Action 72.5 - Tom is tidying up the rules and will then share them
-
-Action 71.3 - Alistair said that he did not intend to carry out this
action. Milan suggested that a round table at the forthcoming PanData
workshop could address this. The workshop is before the next meeting so the
action will be removed.
-
-Tom reported on the ICAT Steering Group which had its first meeting last
week.The main items of discussion were the ToR and the choice of chairman.
The meeting has not yet chosen a chairman. TopCAT was also discussed. The
consensus was that TopCAT would be needed but that two labs still needed to
have their own bespoke interface as well.The work of the group will be
public and the ToR (once finalised) and the minutes of the meetings will
appear on icatproject.org.
-
-Steve reported on ICAT development. The 4.3.3-SNAPSHOT was made available
around the end of April for both server and client. Note that the updated
documentation for the client is with the client as the server and client
are now released separately. No feedback has been received yet. Work on
producing a RESTful interface covering at least import and export has
started. As a consequence of a chnage made to facilitiate deployment on
Wildlfy icat will now be packaged as a .war file instead of a .ear file.
This has fixed the problem reported earlier on deploying a RESTful
interface side by side with a SOAP interface.
-
-Steve also reported on the IDS development for which a snapshot is also
available. Rolf has deployed in but found that had disabled the background
data checking. Steve hopes that this can be restored but at a level where
it does not have too big an impact. A change is being made to support file
uploads from TopCAT using POST.
-
-Wayne then reported on TopCAT. The remaining work preventing the next
release is the file upload. The file can be uploaded but he is not able to
see whether or not the operation was successful because of the same-origin
policy enforced by the browser. He is lookign for a work-around. Next week
he plans to use Balsamiq to mock up a new TopCAT interface with the hope
that it can be shown at the forthcoming PanData workshop to attract
feedback.
-
-Tom reported that he had been working with Kevin to fix a problem when the
Oracle RAC nodes go down and no failover takes place. The solution should
appear in the installation scripts or at least be documented. Tom also
reported that as a test he had tried deleting all the investigations for an
instrument and that it took about a second for each investigation (which is
the top of a tree of course) so he resorted to a direct operation on the
database.
-
-There were no AOB items.
-
-
-=== Actions ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned ||
-|| 74.0 || Look into JDBC connector resilience with
Wildfly || Steve ||
-|| 74.1 || Document or implement in setup script the JDBC connector fix
for Glassfish/Oracle || Kevin or Steve ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve ||
-
-== Meeting 73 - 24 April 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 72 (Steve)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Alternatives to Glassfish (Any)
- * Issuing DOIs for ICAT (Tom)
- * ICAT roadmap update (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 73 ===
-Present: Steve, Wayne, Kunal, Tom, Shelly
-
-Apologies: Milan, Anton, Rolf
-
-The meeting startup was delayed by about 10 minutes because of mistakes in
setting up a laptop at RAL.
-
-Action 72.0 - Circulate likely time-scales for the items on the current
road map is no longer relevant as a new roadmap - with dates - will be
discussed in this meeting - Closed
-
-Action 72.1 - Kunal had organised a Hangout familiarisation meeting last
week - Closed
-
-Action 72.2 - The IDS plugin interface was discussed in Dub with SSIlin
and the views of Christophe accepted - Closed
-
-Action 72.3 - Tom explained that Alistair had had some misconfiguration -
Closed
-
-Action 72.4 - Fixed in 4.3.3 - Closed
-
-Steve reported on the 4.3.3 SNAPSHOTs of the server and client. Shelly
asked about the need to use Glassfish 4. Steve explained that Glassfish 4
was used for testing and that it allowed the deployment order of components
to be defined but that version 3 of Glassfish should still work.
-
-Wayne reported that the next TopCAT release was delayed by about a month.
Various bug fixes had been made but the upload facility was not yet
complete.
-
-Kunal has started looking at !WildFly as an alternative container. He will
report next month.
-
-Tom explained his ideas about issuing DOIs for the ICAT software. He will
put this into a posting in order to get feedback on the desired granularity
- Action
-
-Steve explained the updated roadmap. A couple of small changes were
suggested and having reassured Tom that nothing had been removed besides
giving consideration to integration of ICE into TopCAT and the construction
of a federation service there was agreement that the updated roadmap - with
the two extra changes from the meeting should replace the existing roadmap,
but that the existing one be preserved on the web site to show progress.
Changes to multi-ICAT searching were discussed, including providing mockups
of the proposed designs.
-
-Tom reported that Kevin had been updating their ICAT 4.3.2 to use
Glassfish 4. He had had some problems with certificates.
-
-Shelly asked about the date of the next meeting. It is normally held on
the last Thursday of the month - so in this case the 29th May.
-
-=== Actions 73 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned ||
-|| 73.0 || Send round a proposal for ICAT
DOIs || Tom ||
-|| 73.1 || Report on issues porting
to !WildFly || Kunal ||
-|| 73.2 || Send around details of Balsamiq
mockups || Tom ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve ||
-
-
-== Meeting 72 - 27 February 2014 ==
-
-Agenda
-
- * Actions from meeting 71 (Steve)
- * Meeting technology (Kunal)
- * Meeting in Dublin in March (Alistair)
- * ICAT roadmap (Steve)
- * ICAT development (Steve)
- * TopCAT development (Wayne)
- * Coordination of IDS plugins (Andy/Christophe)
- * Release and SV for Pandata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-
-=== Notes 72 ===
-Present: Milan, Shelly, Ivan, Alistair, Christophe, Anton, Kunal, Tom,
Wayne and Steve
-
-Apologies: Rolf
-
-Action 71.0 - there has not been much progress yet with the preparation of
the Dublin meeting besides essentials such as a room to meet in. This will
be rectified over the next few weeks. It will not appear on the actions
list as there will be no further meeting before Dublin. Tom volunteered Jay
to talk about integration of ICAT and Mantid and also to talk about his
experience (as someone new to ICAT) with the ICAT API.
-
-Action 71.1 - this has now been completed and the first version finalised.
Steve will circulate a note with probable time scales for the items on the
road map. The time scales may become part of the map when it is next
revised.
-
-Action 71.2 - a request has been sent in to the icat-support list Wayne is
in discussion with Milan about it. This will be closed.
-
-Action 70.6 - PanData release 003 has exhibited no problems. This action
will be closed.
-
-Action 70.9 - Kunal has been investigation alternative meeting
technologies. He has tried a meeting using Google Hangouts with Shelley and
Milan and all were favourably impressed. It was noted that it did take a
little while to get used to but the functionality was excellent. Kunal will
register people as required and will set up a test meeting for anyone who
wants to familiarise themselves with the technology so that the next ICAT
collaboration meeting progresses smoothly. This will be in a around two
weeks time.
-
-Agenda items except where covered by actions:
-
-Steve reported on ICAT progress and the problems he has been having trying
to add a servlet to the icat ear file. He will work around the problem for
now with a SOAP interface for the lucene communication.
-
-Wayne reported that he had been discussing the behaviour of TopCAT with
Milan. The next release of TopCAT will include data upload.
-
-Christophe explained that the IDS plugin mechanism did not give him the
flexibility he needed. He will send a note to Steve explaining what he
needs.
-
-The PanData SV has shown up a problem accessing the ISIS ICAT. This may be
a firewall problem somewhere as it used to work. Alistair will follow up on
any possible firewall issues. In about 3 week's time the SV will
concentrate on Umbrella.
-
-Tom asked if anybody had seen any odd behaviour with case sensitivity of
searches.
-
-Tom will submit his authz rules to the contrib directory.
-
-Alistair has discovered proxyvole to search for and use existing proxy
configurations. This will be used in the next SV.
-
-Christophe asked how to record which instrument a dataset is related to
now that we have a many to many relation between investigation and
instrument. Besides using a DatasetParameter no other suggestion was
offered.
-
-=== Actions 72 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned || Status ||
-|| 72.0 || Circulate likely time-scales for the items on the current road
map || Steve || New ||
-|| 72.1 || Organise a Hangout familiarisation
meeting || Kunal ||
New ||
-|| 72.2 || Send note to Steve about the shortcomings of the IDS plugin
interface || Christophe || New ||
-|| 72.3 || Understand why SV's fail when ISIS ICAT is
contacted || Alistair || New |
|
-|| 72.4 || Raise an issue on case sensitivity of
searches || Tom ||
New ||
-|| 72.5 || Add authz rules to contrib
directory || Tom ||
New ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair || Pending ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Pending ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Pending ||
-
-== Meeting 71 - 31 January 2014 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 70 (Steve)
- * Meeting technology (Alistair)
- * Meeting in Dublin in March (Alistair)
- * ICAT roadmap (Steve)
- * Status of recent releases (Steve)
- * Coordination of IDS plugins (Andy/Christophe)
- * Release and SV for Pandata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (Any)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 71 ===
-Present: Rolf, Shelley, Milan, Alistair, Kunal and Steve
-
-Apologies: Tom
-
-Kunal had looked at a number of choices including GoToMeeting and
Teamviewer. Evo was also suggested as another possibility. He will try out
one or more products with Milan and Shelley and report back.
-
-Alastair explained that the current Dublin meeting agenda was currently a
clone of that for the the last meeting. Steve requested that any site
reports should highlight any problems.
-
-Steve went through the draft Road Map. A lot of useful ideas were put
forward which will be reflected in the map:
- * Documentation improvements are needed for search and authorization
(doing it efficiently)
- * Rolf has data export/import for his python code but it is quite slow.
He uses yaml syntax with ids replaced by the uniqueness constraint fields
which is similar to what Steve had in mind.
- * It was suggested again that it would be good to isolate the federation
part of Topcat. This might be a service in its own right.
- * There was a suggestion that ICE should be incorporated into TopCAT.
-
-PaNData service verification will start tomorrow.
-
-Alistair said that he planned to produce a report on ICAT from PaNData.
Steve asked him to make sure that problems were promptly reported in the
usual way (the appropriate googlecode issue list) so that any issues could
be addressed as soon as possible.
-
-Milan had found a problem with TopCAT for which he will submit a bug report
-
-=== Actions 71 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Assigned || Status ||
-|| 71.0 || Organise the Dublin
meeting ||
Alistair || In progress ||
-|| 71.1 || Update road map with ideas from
meeting || Steve ||
New ||
-|| 71.2 || Submit TopCAT bug
report ||
Milan || New ||
-|| 71.3 || Invite WP4 of Pandata to provide feedback on their experience
of ICAT products || Alistair || New ||
-|| 70.6 || Test a collection of ICAT parts as Pandata release
003 || Alistair || In progress ||
-|| 70.9 || Investigate alternative meeting
technology || Kunal || In
progress ||
-|| 61.1 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Pending ||
-|| 60.3 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Pending ||
-
-== Meeting 70 - 12 December 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 69 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 and related parts such as authn (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Wayne)
- * Training and SV for Panadata (Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 70 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Wayne, Alistair, Shelly, Tom
-
-The actions were reviewed and their stati updated/
-
-The face to face meeting for 2014 has been set for 24-25 March. The venue
is the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin.
-
-There will be releases of ICAT, Topcat, Authn_shib and IDS around the end
of 2013, or the beginning of 2014.
-
-A collection of ICAT parts will be tested as a group and adopted by
Pandata as part of the Pandata software stack release in January 2014.
-
-There is a need to investigate the use of ICATs sharing a single lucene
index.
-
-There was discussion about the ICAT collaboration meetings. It was agreed
to reduce the frequency of meetings from fortnightly to monthly. It was
agreed to investigate the use of alternative technology for the meetings.
The present arrangements with voice only connections in a telephone
conference does not support visual means of communication.
-
-=== Actions 70 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 70.0 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 70.1 || See Juan about the ICAT meeting in
Dublin || TG ||
Done ||
-|| 70.2 || Close actions 66.04 and
64.02 || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 70.3 || Release ICAT
4.3.1 ||
SF || Done ||
-|| 70.4 || Release update to the SNAPSHOT IDS and the python
api || SF || Done
||
-|| 70.5 || Release Topcat
1.11 ||
SF || Done ||
-|| 70.6 || Test a collection of ICAT parts as Pandata release
003 || AM || In
progress ||
-|| 70.7 || Investigate 2 icats sharing a lucene
index || SF || To be
considered as part of the Road Map||
-|| 70.8 || Release the shibboleth authenticator for use by
Umbrella || SF ||
Done ||
-|| 70.9 || Schedule a set of meetings for ICAT in 2014 and investigate
alternative technology || Kunal || In progress - transferred to
Kunal ||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 69 - 31 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 68 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 69 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Frazer, Alistair, Kunal, Milan
-
-Apologies: Shelly, Jamie, Christophe, Tom
-
-Steve reported that he had talked to Bill and Stefan in ISIS about
Umbrella authentication. He also reported that he had exchanged emails
with Bjorn at PSI. He said that he was making progress, but it was not
possible to say when it would work, as completion is dependent on the
collaboration of the group.
-
-Steve reported that ICAT 4.3.0 was now available and he had only on
reported fault.
-
-Steve reported that he was now working on IDS, and that he was confident
that the IDS release will be ready in November 2013.
-
-Steve reported that Wayne is making good progress with Topcat. It is
expected that Topcat 2.0 will be available in November 2013 and include
support for IDS.
-
-Frazer reported that ISIS now has ICAT 4.3 available with Topcat 1.9.
-
-Steve reported that ISIS now has ICAT 4.3 available with Topcat 1.9.
-
-Milan reported that SV6 is due on 1 November and that the tests are
running correctly at Elettra.
-
-Alistair reported that the materials for the training course on in the
installation of the Pandata software stack are almost ready and that the
course will take place next week.
-
-Alistair reported that good progress was being made with the ingester for
ESRF and that ingestion into the production ICAT at ESRF will start during
November.
-
-(Ed's note - Jamie sent a report that ILL has recruited an additional
engineer to work on the ILL catalogue. The engineer will start work in
November).
-
-=== Actions 69 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 69.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 69.01 || Make use of the new ISIS ICAT in SV6 on 1
November || AM || Done
||
-|| 69.02 || Make use of the new DLS ICAT in SV6 on 1
November || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 69.03 || Discuss that training course for Pandata and make changes to
the materials || AM/SF || Done ||
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || Done ||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly ||
Done ||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || Cancelled ||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 68 - 17 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 67 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Status of TopCAT (Wayne)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 68 ===
-
-Present: Steve, Tom, Wayne, Frazer, Alistair, Kunal
-
-Tom reported that the date of the Spring meeting was still being discussed.
-
-As discussed at the previous meeting actions 61.01 and 60.03 have been
dropped - they will be done at some stage.
-
-There had been a lot of useful feedback on the ICAT 4.3.0 snapshots
resulting in a number of improvements. The only remaining issue was the
inability to install it on Glassfish 4.
-
-There has been some progress with the IDS but not much as Steve has been
working mostly on ICAT. He plans to make some changes to the API to make it
more convenient to use.
-
-Wayne reported that there had been a review of TopCAT issues out of which
the items that should be fixed for the next release were identified. He is
working on interfacing to ICAT 4.3.0 but does not have one installed. Tom
suggested he should use the ISIS one. Tom will also check to see if he has
anything else to add to the issue list.
-
-=== Actions 68 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status ||
-|| 68.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done ||
-|| 68.01 || Check that the list of requirements for
Topcat || TG || Done ||
-|| 68.02 || Check that the topcat43 plugins works with ICAT
4.3.0 || WC || Done ||
-|| 68.03 || Get a credential from ISIS to access the ISIS
Topcat || WC || Done ||
-|| 68.04 || Talk to Bill and Stefan about Umbrella authentication plugin
for ICAT || SMF || Done ||
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM ||
Done ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly || .||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 67 - 3 October 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from meeting 66 (Steve)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 67 ===
-
-Present: Milan, George, Shelly, Steve, Tom, Wayne and Frazer
-
-It was noted that the date of the ICAT meeting in Spring next year is not
yet fixed. It should be done soon.
-
-It was suggested that actions 61.01 and 60.03 should be removed as they
will be done when they are ready and are not urgent.
-
-Tom reported on his work testing the ICAT4.3.0-SNAPSHOTs. There were still
some problems to be addressed with multiple rules. He suggested
-that the installation script might check for the EJBTimer. This is present
when Glassfish is installed but might have been deleted. He had been unable
to use the installation scripts on Windows.
-
-=== Actions 67 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 67.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || SMF || Done|
|
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM |
| .||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss with Erica Yang issues of mutual
concern || Shelly || .||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT
4.3 || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || Drop||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || Drop||
-
-
-== Meeting 66 - 19 September 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 65 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Update from Pandata (Alistair)
- * Status of IDS (Steve)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 66 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Frazer (ISIS), Tom (ISIS), George
(Elettra), Milan (Elettra), Julien (ESRF), Shelly (SNS) and Steve (STFC)
-
-Apologies: Jamie (ILL)
-
-The date of the ICAT face to face meeting in 2014 was discussed. The
final Pandata meeting is scheduled for 29 March 2014 in Dublin to meet in
the same week as the RDA meeting in Dublin. The last three face to face
meetings in 2011 (Paris), 2012 (Grenoble) and 2013 (Lund) were schedule to
meet in the same week as a Pandata meeting. It was agreed that we would
defer a decision on the date until more information is available about a
successor project to Pandata. It is likely that ICAT-2014 will be in May
2014. We will try to settle the data by December 2013.
-
-Tom reported that a bug in NxIngest had been detected and corrected.
-
-Steve reported that the snapshots for ICAT 4.3 and related components are
available and he would like more feedback.
-
-Steve reported that progress on IDS 1.0 was good, and that it should be
available in October/November.
-
-Tom reported that Mantid now supports ICAT 4.2.
-
-Shelly reported that SNS is now investigating the use of ICAT with
autoreduction.
-
-Alistair reported that he is arranging a two day training course for
technical people in Pandata. The training will include the installation,
deployment and operations of the latest ICAT materials including their
integration with Apache. The training will also cover Topcat, IDS,
Umbrella.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-
-=== Actions 66 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 66.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
|
-|| 66.01 || Fix the dates of the ICAT and Pandata meetings in Spring
2014 || TG/AM || .||
-|| 66.02 || Send a note to TG about
Nxingest || AM |
| .||
-|| 66.03 || Send a note to the icat collaboration about the training for
Pandata || AM ||
https://code.google.com/p/pandata/wiki/TrainingSwInstallation ||
-|| 66.04 || Discuss autoreduction with Erica Yang and Shelly
Ren || AM || .||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || On-going||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-== Meeting 65 - 5 September 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 64 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 65 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Kevin (STFC), Tom (ISIS), Idrissou
(Soleil) and Steve (STFC)
-
-There has been an offer from ISIS to host the face to face meeting in
March 2014. It was agreed to accept this offer and the chairman thanked
Tom for the offer. The meeting is likely to be held in collaboration with
the final meeting of Pandata.
-
-Steve reported that progress on the collection of parts associated with
release of ICAT 4.3 was going well. There are a small number of
interdependencies. For example ICAT 4.3 requires a new version of
Icat-setup. The authn_db has also changed. There was a discussion of
detection of compatibilities. It was agreed to review these, following
experience of using the new versions of the parts.
-
-There were no issues with any production deployment. However Tom reported
that he was very keen to move to ICAT 4.3 as it solves some of his
difficulties.
-
-There was a question about the status of IDS. Steve reported the
technical work was going well, and that a version for comment would be
available in October. Tom asked that this version be available soon, even
if some advanced features for remote file systems are not supported.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-=== Actions 65 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 65.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
|
-|| 65.01 || Discuss the arrangements for ICAT 2014 with
Pandata || TG/AM || Done||
-|| 65.02 || Provide feedback on ICAT 4.3 and its related
parts || All || On-going||
-|| 65.03 || Meet again on 19
September ||
All || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 64.03 || Make snapshots of ICAT 4.3.rc available for comment in
August || Steve || Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 64 - 8 Aug 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 63 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * ICAT F2F Meeting (Steve and Alistair)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 64 ===
-
-Present: Alistair (STFC/chair), Kevin (STFC), Tom (ISIS), Ivan (CCFE) and
Steve (STFC)
-
-As it is August, the meeting was quiet.
-
-Ivan from CCFE joined the conference for the first time. CCFE is the
Centre for Fusion Energy. We welcome CCFE to the collaboration.
-
-The Pandata meeting in Barcelona in September was discussed. It was noted
that there would NOT be a meeting about ICAT. However Steve offered to
host a web cast session in September where he would discuss the contents of
ICAT 4.3.
-
-It was agreed to invite members of the collaboration to offer to host a
face to face meeting of ICAT in March 2014.
-
-Steve discussed the status of ICAT 4.3 and reported that progress was
good. He will make a snapshot of the software and the documentation
available to interested parties later in August. Following that, he will
release ICAT 4.3. During September, he will host a webcast session to
discuss ICAT 4.3.
-
-There are no known problems with the production deployments.
-
-Ivan reported that he was making progress with ICAT. At the moment he is
investigating how to integrate ICAT with other meta data systems at CCFE.
-
-Steve reported that he intends to move www.icatproject.org to a new host
during August. The new host will be located within STFC and have a new IP
address. This change should not affect anyone using the resources such as
the maven repository on www.icatproject.org.
-
-The meeting concluded at 15h30.
-
-=== Actions 64 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 64.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Alistair || Done||
-|| 64.01 || Invite invitations to host the ICAT collaboration meeting in
March '14 || Alistair || Done||
-|| 64.02 || Schedule a web cast on the contents of ICAT 4.3 for
September || Steve || .||
-|| 64.03 || Make snapshots of ICAT 4.3.rc available for comment in
August || Steve || .||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 63 - 25 July 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 62 (Chair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Feedback on new components (authn_simple, topcat 1.9, ice and
icat-setup (All)
- * Feedback on changes to query language, authz rules etc (All)
- * Feedback on guidelines for developers (All)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 63 ===
-
-Present: Juergen, Milan, George, Shelley, Tom, Brian, Kevin and Steve
(Chair)
-
-There was no progress on any of the actions.
-
-Steve: ICAT 4.3 is still progressing well. There is a problem in the MySQL
migration script. It is hoped that when this is converted to Oracle the
error may become apparent. It currently looks like a MySQL bug. Besides
this the only work left to do is the new query language and related authz
changes. Old style queries are being parsed and converted into the new JPQL
style. They will then be subject to the new authorization code. This means
that because the authz code is changing the data that comes back from
INCLUDE may change in 4.3. Some modifications to authz rules may be needed
to restore the old behaviour if so desired.
-
-Tom: A couple of feature requests for TopCAT have been submitted, ice and
icat-setup seem to work as advertised.
-
-Steve: Feedback on the query language changes had been received saying
that we should keep the old language for an extended period. This is to
avoid forcing people to change and because its simplicity is appreciated.
There seems to be no problem with this. Following a question from Tom, it
was explained that authz rules would be applied to included entities but
that a mechanism would be provided to say that it was always allowed to go
from one specific entity type to another: for example from Dataset to
Datafile.
-
-The developer guidelines were discussed briefly. Antony had requested by
e-mail the inclusion of something about logging. Tom questioned the need to
provide a python install script for the trivial installations, but agreed
that, if it were provided, then it should be in python and follow the
guidelines. Tom would also like to see some documentation on what the
scripts were doing. He was happy to have a verbose option to provide this.
-
-AOB: Earlier in the meeting Shelley had asked about the IDS - Steve
emphasised that though it had been made available to parts of !PanData it
was not yet a supported ICAT component. Juergen expressed an interest in
using !OpenId with ICAT however he has no spare effort at the moment to do
anything about it. Brian asked what was being done about organising the
ICAT part of the Barcelona meeting. Steve suggested that it should have two
parts: one relating to !PanData and a more general part. An action has been
added for Steve and Alistair.
-
-=== Actions 63 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 63.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Steve |
| Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about glassfish configuration to reduce https
overhead || Steve || Done||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || Alistair ||
ApacheAndGlassfish ||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-|| 63.01 || Plan the ICAT meeting in
Barcelona || Steve/Alistair|
| Done||
-
-== Meeting 62 - 11 July 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 61 (Chair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * New components (Steve)
- * Feedback on Topcat 1.9 Snapshot (All)
- * Issues from ICAT production deployments (All)
- * AOB (All)
-
-=== Notes 62 ===
-
-Present: Daniel Salvat, Pablo Garcia, David Lopez, George Kourousias, Tom
Griffin and Steve Fisher (Chair)
-
-SMF: ICAT4.3 now needs two more things: schema changes with associated
scripts and enhanced query language. End of August still looks possible.
-
-Rolf Krahl's simple authenticator has been released and at some point a
class he has written to handle hashed passwords will also be used by the db
authenticator.
-
-A SNAPSHOT of TopCAT 1.9 has been made available - no feedback has been
received so far.
-
-Releases of ice (an ICAT Editor and icat-setup for editing authz related
tables) are imminent. Kevin will test them both before release.
-
-TG: ISIS is still using ICAT3.3 and is waiting for ICAT4.3 with the
enhanced query language to support more specific rules.
-
-GK: Umbrella will be part of the next PaNData verifications so will
probably need an umbrella authenticator.
-
-DS: Reminder about the Barcelona workshop which is expected to have two
satellite meetings: one on icat and and one on umbrella.
-
-=== Actions 62 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status||
-|| 62.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || Steve ||
Done||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || Tom || .||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about glassfish configuration to reduce https
overhead || Steve || .||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || Alistair |
| Done||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || Steve || .||
-
-== Meeting 61 - 13 June 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 60 (Alistair)
- * Release conditions for products (Alistair)
- * Status of contribs (Alistair)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 61 ===
-
-We were pleased to have Milan join us again. He has been away from work
for a month following an operation on his wrist.
-
-Nicola informed us that he is going to leave ESRF in June to work in a
commercial organisation in Zurich. The chairman thanked Nicola for his
work with ICAT and wished him well in his new position.
-
-There was discussion about the appropriateness of the release conditions
which AM had added to the wiki. It was agreed that this would be discussed
again, for example when ICAT 4.3 is close to release.
-
-SF reported that progress with ICAT 4.3 is good; that free text search is
working and is very efficient; that consolidation of code is reducing the
volume of code, and making things simpler in the longer term.
-
-TG reported that he is working on a simple browser for ICAT. He will put
it into contrib when it is ready.
-
-SF reported that he has done some timing tests on the download component
of the IDS. This has led to changes in the implementation which ensures
that the cypher in SSL mode is set dynamically and this generally ensure
less time for the cypher.
-
-AM reported that GF 4 has been released and that he has deployed ICAT,
Authdb and Topcat on a GF 4 and that they appear to work correctly. There
was a problem trying to deploy the download component of IDS; as this is
not yet a supported product, this is a matter for development.
-
-AM reported that he had deployed ICAT with GF4 with an Apache front-end.
This work has been done at ESRF and will be used for the ESRF production
ICAT. The GF4 and the Apache communicate with one another using AJP.
There was a bug in GF 3 which meant that this did not work when using
https, due to an error in the GF which continued to use http, when it
should have used https. The bug has been fixed in GF 4. To verify that
the bug was due to GF3, having got ICAT to work with GF4, AM then tried
changing back to GF3, and the ICAT did not work.
-
-=== Actions 61 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 61.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 61.01 || Put the simple ICAT browser into contrib when it is
ready || TG || .|
| -||
-|| 61.02 || Write a note about the performance on the download component
of IDS || SF || .|| -||
-|| 61.03 || Write a note about GF 4 and
AJP || AM ||
Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 61 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || ILL ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 60 - 30 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meeting 59 (Alistair)
- * Roadmap for ICAT 4.3 (Alistair)
- * Release conditions for ICAT 4.3 (Alistair)
- * Status of IJP (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Alistair)
- * Status of Topcat (Alistair)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 60 ===
-
-We were pleased to have Milan join us again. He has been away from work
for a month following an operation on his wrist.
-
-Ghita informed us that she is going to leave Diamond in June to take up an
academic position teaching Computer Science in a University. The chairman
thanked Ghita for her work with ICAT and wished her well in her new
position.
-
-Steve said that work on ICAT 4.3 was progressing well, with the
development of Notifications and Logging completed. He will deal with Free
text next. He said that when he completes the development of a feature, he
changes the status of the corresponding ticket to started. The ticket will
be closed when the feature is included in a release. If further work is
required following release, a new ticket will be created.
-
-Alistair reported that he had written notes about the release conditions
for ICAT and IDS. He will send an email to the mailing list inviting
comments.
-
-Steve reported that the IJP is now ready for deployment in LSF at STFC. A
paper has been written and will be presented at a conference in Zurich new
week. He agreed to finalise a release of this product and to make an
announcement.
-
-Steve reported that as Antony has left the project, we are short of
resources for the development and support of Topcat. We would very much
appreciate it, if one of our partners were to volunteer to support or
develop Topcat.
-
-Alistair reported that as Frazer has left the project, we have recruited a
student who will join for three months from the beginning of September.
His main task will be to prepare the IDS for release. We are expecting to
have Frazer working with the project team from September again. This will
provide continuity in the work with IDS.
-
-Alistair and Steve reported that STFC is going to recruit at least one
contractor for several months to support the ICAT related work until a
permanent replacement can be found for Antony.
-
-The meeting finished at 15:25 BST.
-
-=== Actions 60 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 60.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 60.01 || Add a page to the wiki about ICAT 4.3 and IDS 1.0 release
conditions || AM || Done|| -||
-|| 60.02 || Send a note to the mailing list about the notes on release
conditions || AM || Done|| -||
-|| 60.03 || Finalise a release of IJP and send a note to the mailing
list || SF || .|| -|
|
-|| 60.04 || Consider offering help to support or develop
Topcat || All || .|
| -||
-|| 60.05 || Make changes to the room booking at RAL for the ICAT
meetings || AM || Done|
| -||
-
-
-=== Attendance 60 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George K || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility |
| || + ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 59 - 16 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 58 (Alistair)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (Steve)
- * Status of anonymous authenticator (Steve)
- * Status of IDS (Antony)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 59 ===
-
-Steve reported that Antony has now left the collaboration as he has a new
job within STFC SCD. Alistair was asked to make an announcement about the
availability of the technology preview of the IDS. Alistair reported that
the downloader part of the IDS had performed well during the service
verification on 10 May 2013.
-
-(Steve and Alistair reviewed the status of the materials for the IDS on 22
May 2013 and decided that the IDS is not ready for a technology preview.
There will be a student working on this from July, and we expect to have it
ready for preview by September).
-
-Steve reported that the anonymous authenticator is now available.
Alistair reported that he has successfully deployed it on one of the test
icats for Pandata.
-
-Kevin reported that he has deployed ICAT 4.2.5 in production for CLF at
RAL. This appears to have cured the problem of memory leak and improved
the reliability of ICAT.
-
-Kevin and Tom both reported that adding additional indexes to some of the
tables in the database has made a large difference to the time required for
queries. The response time is much lower, and it is much more consistent.
-
-There was discussion of how to implement index generation in ICAT 4.3.
There is not a standard way in SQL to tell a database to create indexes.
Furthermore, the tables which requires the indexes can vary from one
installation to another. There is a way to tell EclipseLink to generate
indexes in tables, but this does not work if a different persistence
provider is used. It was agreed to provide documentation on index
generation.
-
-Steve reported that adding the extensions to the query language for ICAT
to support the changes to the schema to be introduced in icat 4.3 is rather
complicated and would delay the availability of ICAT 4.3. It was agreed
that Steve should take the time to get it correct, and if it delays ICAT
4.3 until after the summer recess, this would be satisfactory. (There is a
requirement of Pandata that the changes to the schema of ICAT are required
by October 2013 - Ed).
-
-=== Actions 59 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 59.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 58.01 || Make an announcement about the technology preview of the
IDS || AM || Will not be done|| The IDS is not ready |
|
-
-=== Attendance 59 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||Pablo || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || IIL ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 58 - 2 May 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 57 (SMF)
- * Status of ICAT 4.3 (SMF)
- * Status of SV4 of Pandata (AM)
- * Status of CCFE (AM)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 58 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions and updated the status of actions.
-
-SMF stated that a 4.2.5 version of ICAT would be released to fix a
thread/memory leak related to the initialisation of log4j. He was reminded
that there may be a problem with the frequency of access to the sequence
table and that this might also go into 4.2.5.
-
-SMF stated that ICAT 4.3.0 would include the changes required by ISIS for
a more powerful query language supporting more complex authz rules.
-
-In AM's absence GK reported on PaNdata SV4 which will start next week and
be based on "Big V".
-
-AOB:
-
-SR reported that she was working with APS on a new pilot project
-
-SMF asked if there was any interest in a "File Authenticator". There
wasn't so it will not happen. The question then arose can we find out what
authenticators are present and what credentials they require. TopCAT can
manage without but at the expense of having to configure a plugin
correctly. A new requirement will be added.
-
-AW reported that there was good progress on Noris's admin interface to
TopCAT.
-
-It was reported that the Chinese Neutron Source have successfully deployed
an ICAT and TopCAT.
-
-Finally GKM reported that "Actors" had been added to DAWN.
-
-=== Actions 58 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res || Status|| Comment||
-|| 57.02 || Prepare a distribution of a technology preview of the Download
Manager || AW || Done|| -||
-|| 58.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || SMF || Done|
| -||
-|| 58.01 || Produce 4.2.5 release of
ICAT || SMF ||
Done|| - ||
-|| 58.02 || Add a requirement to be able to discover what authenticators
are present and what credentials they require. || SMF |
| Done|| Issue 122 ||
-
-
-=== Attendance 58 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba |
| || + ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||NB ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-
-
-
-== Meeting 57 - 18 April 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 56 (Alistair)
- * Icat Data Server (IDS) development (Antony)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 57 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions from earlier meetings and updated the status
of actions.
-
-The meeting discussed the arrival of CCFE as a collaborator. Alistair
agreed to send a note to the collaboration about this. There is now a note
called InductionProcess on the wiki. The intention is to follow this
process and to enhance the note. The purpose of this is to ensure that new
partners get off to a good start. We look forward to having a
representative of CCFE attend one of these meetings.
-
-The meeting discussed the status of the reference implementation of the
IDS. One part of this is called the Download Manager. This is now in
pre-production with both the ISIS and DLS facilities. It will also be used
as part of the service verification which will be conducted by Pandata. It
was agreed to make a distribution of the download manager. This is a
technology preview, and should only be used for testing.
-
-As Steve Fisher is on vacation, the meeting did not discuss the status of
ICAT 4.3.
-
-Tom has created a google group called icat-...@googlegroups.com.
Alistair agreed to add a link to this group on http://www.icatproject.org.
-
-The meeting concluded after 20 minutes. A new record for brevity!
-
-=== Actions 57 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 57.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 57.01 || Inform the collaboration of the arrival of
CCFE || AM || Done||
http://www.ccfe.ac.uk||
-|| 57.02 || Prepare a distribution of a technology preview of the Download
Manager || AW || .|| -||
-|| 57.03 || Add a link to icat-issues on
http://www.icatproject.org || AM ||
Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 57 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||DG ||David Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||FB ||Frazer Barnsley || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 56 - 4 April 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 55 (Alistair)
- * Review of requirements for ICAT (Steve)
- * Review of requirements for ICAT related parts such as Topcat, IDS, IJP
(Steve)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Actions 56 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 56.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 56.01 || Arrange for copies of Pandata presentations to be
available || AM || Done||
https://code.google.com/p/icatproject/source/browse/#svn%2Fmeetings%2FPandataLund,
https://code.google.com/p/icatproject/source/browse/#svn%2Fmeetings%2FLund2013Talks|
|
-|| 56.02 || Add a paragraph to the requirements page about general
requirements || AM || Done|| Deployment, Ingestion,
Publishing, User office, Setup, Operations, Common standards||
-|| . || - PMH
interface ||
SMF || Done|| -||
-|| . || - Revision of XML
schema || SMF |
| Done|| -||
-|| . || - Additional indices in some
tables || SMF || Done|
| -||
-|| 56.03 || Make the priority of the requirement for filesystem interface
to ICAT, high || SMF || Done|| -||
-|| 56.04 || Create tickets for each of the ICAT requirements and link to
index page || SMF || Done|| -||
-|| 56.05 || Provide information about the memory leak in the logging to SN
et alia || TG || Done|| -||
-
-=== Attendance 56 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SMF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||NV ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||BM ||Brian Matthews || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 55 - 21 March 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52-54 (Alistair)
- * Discussion of the outcomes from Lund
- * Discussion of the content of ICAT 4.3
- * Discussion of the agenda for the collaboration meetings Spring 2013
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 55 ===
-
-The meeting discussed actions from earlier meetings and updated the status.
-
-The meeting discussed the conference in Lund. It was generally agreed
that it was successful. A number of items are worthy of note:
-
- * Sites such as Alba may have to enhance the reference implementation of
IDS when it is available, to meet their requirements for data management;
- * There were presentations at the Pandata meeeting (such as Tom's on ICAT
and Umbrella integration) which should be made available to the ICAT
collaboration;
- * There should be a half day ICAT workshop added to the Pandata meeting
in Barcelona in September;
- * There will be a Pandata WP4 telco next week to discuss matters arising
from the Pandata meeting in Lund.
-
-The meeting discussed topics to be addressed in the next three months of
collaboration meetings - see the list above.
-
-The meeting finished at 15h35.
-
-=== Actions 55 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 55.00 || Document the meeting and update the
actions || AM ||
Done|| -||
-|| 55.01 || Arrange for copies of Pandata presentations to be
available || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 55.02 || Arrange an ICAT workshop with the Pandata meeting at Alba in
September || AM/DS || On-going||
-||
-
-=== Attendance 55 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||IC ||Idrissou Chado || Soleil ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||NV ||Nicola Bessone || ESRF ||
+ || ||
-||DS ||Daniel Salvat || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||PG ||Pablo Garcia || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS |
| || + ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD |
| || + ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond |
| || + ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility |
| || + ||
-
-== Meeting 54 - 7 March 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52-53 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Actions 54 ===
-
-|| Item ||
Description
|| Res*(1) || Status|| Comment||
-|| 54.00 || Document the
meeting ||
AM || Done|| -||
-|| 54.01 || Update the timetable for
Sweden2013 || AM |
| Done|| -||
-|| 54.02 || Send information about the conference venue to
SR || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.03 || Send Elettra status summary for presentation in Lund to
AM || MP || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.04 || Send one page template for status of a contrib to SR, TG,
SR || AM || Done|
| -||
-|| 54.05 || Distribute the latest notes on the contents of icat
4.3 || SF || Done|
| -||
-
-
-=== Attendance 54 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DS ||Daniel Salvat || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 53 - 21 February 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 52 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Notes 53 ===
-
-Actions 52.02, 52.06 and 52.10 have been completed
-
-Nothing else to report and no AOB.
-
-=== Attendance 53 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KL ||Krister Larsson || MAX ||
+ || ||
-||TG ||Tom Griffin || STFC ISIS Facility ||
+ || ||
-||AW ||Antony Wilson || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||DL ||David Lopez || Alba ||
+ || ||
-
-== Meeting 52 - 7 February 2013 ==
-
- * Actions from the meetings 51 (Alistair)
- * Plans for Sweden2013 (Krister)
- * Status of IDS reference implementation (Antony)
- * Update from PaN-data (Milan/George)
- * AOB (Any)
-
-=== Attendance 52 ===
-
-||Init ||Name || Institute ||
Present || Apologies ||
-||AM ||Alistair Mills || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||SF ||Steve Fisher || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||KP ||Kevin Phipps || STFC SCD ||
+ || ||
-||MP ||Milan Prica || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||GK ||George Kourousias || ELETTRA ||
+ || ||
-||SR ||Shelly Ren || ORNL SNS ||
+ || ||
-||KL ||Krister Larsson || MAX ||
+ || ||
-||JH ||Jamie Hall || ILL ||
+ || ||
-||GKM ||Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui || Diamond ||
+ || ||
-
-=== Notes 52 ===
-
-Steve reported that he had only a small amount of feedback about the
content of ICAT 4.3 and so he would post to the mailing list again.
-
-Shelly asked if people with experience of calling the ICAT API in C++
could provide advice on which package to use. Gsoap is a candidate.
-
-Krister asked that we add a note to the web site about lunch being
available before the ICAT meeting in Lund. He also said that he intends to
send out another announcement about the meeting in Lund. Krister said that
a representative of ESS would attend the ICAT workshop in Lund; he said
that ESS is a potential big user of ICAT.
-
-Jamie asked that changes be included in ICAT 4.3 to support ILL. He will
send a note to the mailing list about this.
-
-Antony and Frazer lead a discussion of the plans for IDS.
-
-Milan reported that he was working on a deliverable for WP4 of Pandata.
He reported that SV[2] was held on 1st February, but it had not been
possible to include meta-data ingestion in the verification.
-
-=== Actions 52 ===
-
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