[Pgi-wg] modified plan for jobmanagement discussions

[Moreno Marzolla]

Steven Newhouse wrote:
> What do you mean by a draft of a 'Production Execution Service'? Is this
> going to start off with a clean sheet or analyse where the current set
> of specifications works and where they do not work and propose changes?
> 
> It seems a great shame now that someone has finally volunteered to move
> forward on this to stop the work... having the call so that everyone can
> understand what the issues are (i.e. those that weren't at the original
> CERN meeting) would seem to be worthwhile use of the call.

It is important to observe that the PGI activity is not going to stall 
due to this: as Balazs pointed out, the security discussion must 
proceed, as a lot of work has been done and we are hopefully going to 
reach an agreement shortly.

As far as the job management task is concerned, we are not going to 
prepare a full proposal for a PGI execution service: this is something 
which must be done by the whole PGI working group, and hopefully will 
follow this initial polishment of the Geneva documents.
We were asked many times during the initial PGI teleconferences to 
provide evidence that the current set of specifications and profiles is 
not adequate to support the needs for our production infrastructures. We 
feel that it is time to finally provide an appropriate, written answer 
to these requests in the form of a well-defined set of requirements for 
a production-quality job management interface. These requirements would 
then help focusing the effort of the PGI group on the actual problems.
We are unlikely to give appropriate answers to those which were not 
involved in the CERN meeting during the short timeframe of the call, and 
the likely outcome is that we will be asked to prepare such a document 
anyway.

Your co-chairs,
Balazs, Moreno and Morris.

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