[Go-essp-tech] ESGF management tools

[Bryan Lawrence]

Hi Folks

We also talked a fair bit about management tooling at NCAR and NOAA, 
recognising that we need to do something to help manage our 
collaborative efforts ...

We've discussed the general principles before, but we were discussing 
the benefits of trac, jira, etc ... and while we appreciate that at the 
GFDL meeting there was a desire to use trac, some issues are know with 
trac - not least that it's difficult to manage multiple sub-projects from 
one trac instance. 

It is important to note that we are *NOT* implying that individual 
groups will need to migrate to whatever we use. This is for federation 
level activities, and it's likely that individual subprojects which are 
already integrated into local management wont change.

The overriding criteria for whatever we used is that it has to be free 
and scalable, wth open administration (remote users can administer it 
easily).

Desirable characteristics included the ability to have a ticket 
heirarchy, and multiple subprojects and milestones.

Sylvia and Stephan have looked into redmine, and are recommending it for 
the ESGF level management. 

We'll look into that in the NH autumn.

Cheers
Bryan

over and out ...

-- 
Bryan Lawrence
Director of Environmental Archival and Associated Research
(NCAS/British Atmospheric Data Centre and NCEO/NERC NEODC)
STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Phone +44 1235 445012; Fax ... 5848; 
Web: home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence