[DRMAA-WG] Meeting minutes Feb 06 2007

[Roger Brobst]

Attendees:
    Hrabri, Dan, Roger, Peter, and Andreas

1. Minutes taker: Roger

2. Minutes Jan 23rd: accepted

3. Document status: OGF "Status of Business" Document
   has favorable mention of DRMAA.

4. Open/general issues discussion
    * Discussed inconsistency in IDL spec with some exception
      names containing 'drm' whereas others indicate 'drms'.
      Determined inconsistency was inherited from other specs
      (e.g., errno's) and not worth addressing.

    * Rough consensus that Enumerations are an inappropriate
      mechanism to identify an attribute to the generic
      getter/setter methods, because they are not extensible
      for custom attributes.  This does not preclude a
      language-specific mechanism to obtain a string for
      each of the required and optional attribute names.
      The IDL-spec should document the required and optional
      attribute names, but not specify a mechanism to obtain
      the string corresponding to a specific attribute.

    * The IDL-spec should discuss the issues to be considered
      for setting/getting job template attributes with respect
      to different programming language concepts (e.g., 
      Object-Oriented with and w/o introspection) and the
      different attribute categories (e.g., required, optional, 
      DRMS-specific).
      Peter & Dan to propose text.

5. Other topics
    * Discussed attendance at OGF-Manchester.
      None of call participants indicated plans to attend.