[ur-wg] XML Changes/Questions: Comment #6c & #9

[Sven van den Berghe]

Just to note that there is some current discussion in the SAGA and  
BES groups on
a common state model, perhaps the base set should be aligned with the  
results
of this.

On 4 May 2006, at 16:50, Laura F McGinnis wrote:

>> 6c)     3.9 Status "This property represents the completion status  
>> of the job" and goes on to say that "it must support the following  
>> values: a)      completed b)      failed
>> c)      aborted
>> d)      held
>> e)      queued
>> f)      started
>> g)      suspended"
>>
>> This is a rather batch system specific approach. In a grid usage  
>> record we are talking about 'final' or completion status of a grid  
>> job. In this sense differentiating between "held, queued, started,  
>> suspended" has not much relevance. It would be better to merge  
>> these 4 active states into one "unfinished" state.
>>
>> BTW, NorduGrid uses the Finished, Failed, Killed, Deleted labels  
>> for completed job states. The NorduGrid "Finish, Failed, Killed"  
>> corresponds to the GGF "completed, failed, aborted", respectively  
>> while the NorduGrid "Deleted" does not exists in th GGF states  
>> (see page 26 about nordugrid-job-status in [3])
>>   The statement "This property must contain data of type integer"  
>> implies that the proposed job states above also should carry an  
>> associated number, in this case. Evaluation: Text and definition  
>> will be changed to user tokens for status. A base set will be  
>> defined, but the comprehensive set of values will be extensible.
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>> 9)      The appended schema mandates the inclusion of the “status”  
>> field.  This is described as a must in section 3.9 but is not  
>> specifically included as a must in section 10.6.  Further the  
>> allowed values in 10.6 are not enforced in the Schema (this might  
>> be okay as other values are allowed).  Suggest that this is  
>> removed as a mandatory record as it is not applicable in the  
>> general case (what about data records?) Evaluation: Status should  
>> be a token (see above) and should be optional.
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