[saga-rg] Notes from the 3rd SAGA meeting at GGF14

[Thilo Kielmann]

Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA-RG)
3rd meeting at GGF14, thursday june 30, 7:30am - 9:00 am, room Regent II

session chaired by Tom Goodale
note taker: Thilo Kielmann

Agenda:
 - introduction
     welcome and IPR issues
     note takers
     agenda bashing
 - requirements document
     structure, viewpoint
 - how do we proceed?
 - conclusion

agenda bashing:
Steven Newhouse: suggests to consider eventnotification
(w.r.t. ws-notification) as an extension to the current SAGA API scope.
The group will take this up as a "to do item".


Requirements document

Tom Goddale is going through the use cases.
The group then identifies a structure for the document as follows:

- introduction
  - target audience
  - where this fits into the SAGA procedure
- use case analysis
  - subsection per use case
    . list functional areas
    . infrastructure requirements
- requirements from other implementations
    . GAT, CoG, RealityGrid, EGGE g-lite, PyGlobus
- infrastructure requirements/assumptions
- functional areas
  . table/matrix
    . should be as explicit as possible
- Summary
  . distill requirements into bullet-pointed list
    for final recommendations
  . split requirements into different phases of implementation based
    upon perceived importance/urgency.


Conclusion
  review action items

  editors for requirements doc: Tom Goodale in august, Ed Seidel
  reviewers: Steven Newhouse, will bend arms to work on it

  send draft to mailinglist by sep 1st
  send individual bits to mailing list as soon as possible, even if
  piecemeal

8:30 meeting is closed