Wednesday March 27th, at 9:00-13:00
Draft no. 4, 26th March 2002
Locations: CERN 40-S2-A01 **** Note unusual location at CERN ****
By Videoconference details of reservation at DCS of ESnet, ID: 192414
(LAPP, Ecole Polytechnique, KEK, SLAC)
Excuses: P. Nieminen, H. Kurashige, D. Wright.
1. Regular Items
30 min
Open Action Items
2. Development plans (iteration 2)
1 hour 45 min
Documents for reference:
Requirements and requests of experiments, presented at TSB of 6th February 2002.
Working group objectives: summary, from TSB 6 Feb 2002.
Revised WG objectives: current revision and summary
Summary, discussions (45 minutes)
* of additions, changes, priorities
* of key objectives
- using input from requirements/requests of customers (TSB, 6 Feb 2002)
- Discussion, explanations
Identifying coupling between WG objectives (20 minutes)
* dependencies between objectives
* scheduling considerations
Identifying 'unmet' requests/requirements (20 minutes)
(those that are not included in 2002 WG plans)
* to identify where new resources are required
* to trigger clients to prioritise.
Major developments (15 minutes)
- cuts per region
(status, plans, ..)
2. Support, Documentation
45 min
Support related requests/requirements from experiments
* support for comparisons
* creation of 'reasonable' starting physics lists
Scheduled Release timing for 2002
- development tags
- major and minor releases
- public patches
Policy for public availability
* of product fixes and improvements between scheduled releases
* of plans concerning content of future releases
Detailed documentation assessment plans
Evolution of Hypernews
3. Process
45 min
Software Process Web page
What significant problems did we experience last year in our processes?
- development, releases,
- support, documentation, user/supplier
Which are important enough that we should solve them in 2002 ?
- Requirements collection, management
- Benchmarks
- Statistical/regression tests
What should we try to assess and improve upon this year and in 2003 ?
4. AOB
15 min