[UR-WG] Initial draft of exp. doc with 'experiences presentation' included

[Jules Wolfrat]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donal K. Fellows [mailto:donal.k.fellows at manchester.ac.uk]
> Sent: 19 May 2009 17:27
> To: Jules Wolfrat
> Cc: Steve Crouch; Usage Record Working Group
> Subject: Re: [UR-WG] Initial draft of exp. doc with 'experiences
> presentation' included
> 
> Jules Wolfrat wrote:
> > Sorry for not answering before. I'm a little bit surprised that
> the
> > DEISA accounting facilities are not mentioned in the document as
> far
> > as I can see. Already more than a year ago we provided feedback
> from
> > our project, see
> > https://forge.ogf.org/sf/discussion/do/listTopics/projects.ur-
> wg/discussion.usage_record_v1_0_experiences
> >
> > But I never did see any follow up of this before the current
> > document was distributed, but I may have missed it. I realize
> that we
> > are not very actively attending the OGF sessions (just too many
> > overlapping meetings), but we certainly are willing to contribute
> to
> > these activities (recently we discussed with NDGF about joint
> further
> > developments too).
> >
> > Unfortunately we don't have an up-to-date document describing our
> > current architecture, the most general description can be found
> in
> > this document:
> > http://www.ges2007.de/fileadmin/papers/jreetz/GES_paper105.pdf
> >
> > The most important changes are that we don't base the usage
> retrieval
> > anymore on WSRF based services and that we have a GUI based
> client
> > DART
> > (http://www.deisa.eu/usersupport/user-documentation/deisa-
> accounting-report-tool
> > ).
> >
> > I hope that this helps a little.
> >
> 
> Jules, you're absolutely right to bring this up. Fixing things like
> this
> is exactly why initial drafts are important, but it is also why
> they are
> merely *initial*. The important thing is that we work together to
> make
> sure that the final version is complete.
> 
> (And I'm very sorry for being slow to follow up on things: I've
> been
> snowed under with work. Not that anyone here should let me get away
> with
> such a poor excuse...)

Dear Donal,

Thanks for the explanation. And indeed it is the final version that matters. It was just my impression that I had missed something.
And I fully appreciate the work that you all put in this, which helps us in running our services.

Best regards,

Jules
> 
> Donal.