[DRMAA-WG] Meeting minutes of DRMAA-WG Dec 4, 2007 call

[Peter Troeger]

> B. Acceptance of the last meeting, Nov 06, 2007 call minutes,

- Accepted

> C. Current documents status
> 	- IDL DRMAA doc submitted

- Peter reported about comments from GFSC
	- Takes responsibility of adding them to the public comment page  
(still not online)
- New OGF process also in public comment, but still does not affect  
DRMAA

> E. Current discussion items
> 	- Java doc/implementation version

- Dan explained problem with Java binding versioning
	- "Java 1.0 binding" published earlier on drmaa.org, was implemented  
by several people
	- Updated (and IDL 1.0 spec compliant) version of this document  
renames one method
	- Leads to question of document version number, and returned API  
version number
- Agreement that this reflects the general question of versioning policy
	- Was not explicitly defined in the past
	- Future policy needs then to be applied to the Java spec
	- Similar problems in the past with different C binding versions  
(SGE has two C DRMAA libs)
- Two proposals roughly identified
	- Synchronized document version numbers are the major issue
		- Leads to another "Java 1.0" spec, but this time in the OGF  
document chain and therefore with a GFD number
		- Might confuse existing developers
	- Document version numbers are decoupled from API version numbers
		- Leads to some "Java 1.X" document, which must relate itself to  
IDL spec 1.0 in the text
		- Might confuse OGF / new developers
	- Question of returned API version number also still unsolved
- Agreement that versioning policy discussion must be solved by  
offline discussion
	- Call for short proposals on mailing list and / or wiki
	
> 	- DRMAA logo

- Not discussed.

> 	- SC'07

- According to Dan, nothing new from Platform so far.
- Agreement that having all ISV's / vendors in one room would be the  
best for discussing future DRMAA development
	- Andreas will check possibilities for such an event at Sun

Next phone conference is on Jan 15th.

Happy new year !