[Go-essp-tech] About Gateway Installation...

[Eric Nienhouse]

Hi Gavin, All,

Thanks for raising this question.

I believe Gateway support for installation, update and maintenance is 
best suited to the NCAR team.  Historically this task has been shared by 
PCMDI, NCAR and more recently JPL/NOAA.  This arrangement has led to 
some confusion amongst Gateway administrators regarding points of 
contact, where documentation resides, etc.  It has also made deployment 
coordination difficult as certain tools, such as the gateway 
installation/update scripts, are not tightly coordinated with gateway 
release versions.

In order to simplify the gateway installations, improve quality and 
receive valuable feedback from this process I propose the NCAR team take 
on the majority of "front line" Gateway deployment support.  In general 
this would include:

1)  Maintain and respond to questions and issues via a gateway specific 
email list:  esg-gateway-dev at earthsystemgrid.org
2)  Maintain and respond to an issue tracking system and encourage the 
gateway community to log issues. (Jira)
3)  Communicate important software releases, time-lines and milestones 
via community email lists.
4)  Document gateway installation and update steps, identify best 
practices, support FAQs, etc.
5)  Provide access to quality controlled release versions and nightly 
development snapshots.

I also believe it is in the best interest of all that the Gateway team 
also take on maintaining the gateway installation script.  Gavin has 
been the developer and maintainer of this useful tool up to this point 
which has been great.  However, I feel this, too, is best supported the 
gateway team due to the dependencies upon gateway software versions and 
deployment configuration.  So, I also propose the Gateway team:

6)  Develop and maintain the gateway installation tools and scripts.

Many of our community members have already contributed to these 
efforts.  It is my hope that this would continue to be a collaborative 
process benefiting the community in general, but with a clear, 
centralized point of contact for these efforts.

Please let me know if you agree this is a reasonable plan moving forward.

Thanks,

-Eric

Gavin M. Bell wrote:
> Gentle People,
>
> I would like to bring up the topic of Gateway installations.
>
> Is there a plan going forward from NCAR to facilitate / support the 
> installation of gateways to those that want / have them?
>
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> Gavin M. Bell
> Lawrence Livermore National Labs
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