[glue-wg] Platform_t

[JP Navarro]

Stephen,

You're right in that I may not be fully aware of previous work, however, I do think it's appropriate to look over GLUE 1 enumerations before recommending them in the context of GLUE 2.  The same applies to EMI or other implementations. We want to bring the best of previous standards work and of current implementations, and as a community endorse the parts that we believe should be standard or recommended broadly.  You're right that a lot of good work has been done and we want to built on it.

Thanks,

JP

On Jun 14, 2013, at 8:15 AM, stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk wrote:

> JP Navarro [mailto:navarro at mcs.anl.gov] said:
>> If all we're publishing are the values that someone in the GLUE community
>> has used, and which the GLUE WG has not made any attempt to reconcile for
>> consistency, duplication, formatting, community meaningful names (not
>> misleading), etc. then it would not make sense to review them.
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> You seem to be treating this as something which we're starting now. In fact several of the enumerated types are carried over from GLUE 1 where we have ten years or more of discussion and agreement, and even for things new or different in GLUE 2 we've been discussing since 2007 and the things in the schema doc were finalised in 2009. We also have many of them implemented in the EMI software releases over the last couple of years. It's fair to say that some things have received a lot more attention than others, but we're certainly not starting from a blank slate. The thing that's new here is to have downloadable lists which are kept up to date, and a (hopefully lightweight) procedure for registering changes.
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