[glue-wg] VOTE by 8/1: GLUE 2.1 for describing cloud resources?

[Maria Alandes Pradillo]

Dear Florido,

> > The only problem I see if we go for a 2.1 version is that we need to
> > understand how to deploy all this in the hierarchical BDII model.
> > What happens if a site BDII hasn´t upgraded the schema to 2.1, it only
> > understands 2.0, and it queries a cloud resource which supports 2.1?
> > will it fail? Or will it fail to publish only those new entities that
> > do not exist yet in 2.0? The same scenario goes for a 2.0 top BDII
> > trying to query 2.1 site BDIIs. I guess until the whole grid hasn´t
> > moved to 2.1 we may have some inconsistent things published around. I
> > haven´t tested this so I´m not sure what happens when you want to
> > publish something in LDAP that is not declared in the LDAP schema
> > file.
> 
> It is not possible to add ldap entities to an LDAP database if these entities do no
> refer to objects in the schema. In short, any BDII using the 2.0 schema will reject
> all 2.1-specific objects, that is, the cloud stuff.

OK, so this is going to be the case in the infrastructure until all resource, site and top BDIIs are updated to glue-schema 2.1.

Regards,
Maria