[Go-essp-tech] CMIP5 Federation Testing Outline

[Eric Nienhouse]

Dear ESG Gateway Collaborators,

We discussed the need for federation testing in our recent GO-ESSP 
call.  I would like to continue our test planning discussion and 
collaboratively develop a document to support this effort.

I welcome your input and insights, in particular for testing scenarios 
related to security and access control of CMIP5 datasets.  I plan to 
serve to coordinate our testing efforts, however, I need help from 
others to develop and document them.

I have an draft outline of these key federation tests at the link below 
and I would like your input:

  https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/esgcet/CMIP5+Federation+Testing+Task+Matrix

Several options exist to enable collaborative access to this document.  
I'd like suggestions from others on the best approach.  Some options follow:

1)  Exchange this document by email and merge edits (we've done this in 
the past)
2)  Move the document to the ESGF wiki (Stephen and Estani have 
suggested this already.)
3)  Keep it on wiki.ucar.edu and provide logins to all collaborators.
4)  Move it to Google Docs.

There is momentum to use the ESGF wiki as at least one supporting 
document may already be there (CMIP5 Status of Gateways and Datanodes.)

What do others think would be best?

Thanks for your input on this.

Kind regards,

-Eric

Eric Nienhouse wrote:
> Dear ESG Gateway Collaborators,
>
> We're quickly approaching the 1.2.0 ESG Gateway software release. This 
> version will provide the basis for the upcoming CMIP5 activity data 
> management effort.
>
> The Gateway 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available for 
> inter-gateway federation testing.  We encourage all who can to upgrade 
> to this version as soon as is reasonably possible. (In particular, if 
> your gateway is on the list of "Key Participating Gateways" below.) 
> For installation and update details, see the included email below.
>
> Please note that the Gateway 1.2.0 RC1 requires a corresponding Data 
> Node version 1.0.4.0 or greater.  This Gateway upgrade may require an 
> update to your Data Node components as well.
>
> We're in need of significant inter-gateway (eg: federation) testing. 
> In order to begin this process, it is important that all participating 
> gateways are running a consistent pre-release 1.2.0 version.  The 
> 1.2.0 RC1 is the recommended version for federation related testing.
>
> Following are the Key Participating Gateways.  Several have already 
> upgraded to the 1.2.0 RC1 version.  If you have not yet upgraded to 
> the 1.2.0 RC1 version, please advise as to when this may be reasonably 
> possible.  (Please send any details or questions to: 
> esg-gateway-dev at earthsystemgrid.org)
>
>   ANU
>   BADC
>   DKRZ
>   JPL
>   LBNL
>   NCAR
>   ORNL
>   PCMDI
>
> Please note the NCAR testing site (http://esg.prototype.ucar.edu) is 
> currently running the 1.2.0 RC1 version for federation testing purposes.
>
> I would like to begin discussing the top priority federation tests and 
> would like to hear your input.  In particular, testing scenarios 
> related to security and access control of CMIP5 datasets are of key 
> importance.  I will send a follow up email regarding this testing effort.
>
> Thank you for your involvement in this effort!
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> -Eric
>
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:15:48 -0700
>  Nathan Wilhelmi <wilhelmi at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have made a new release of the gateway available, 1.2.0-RC1. The
>> release resolves a number of issues that were identified in the BETA3
>> release.
>>
>> The new BETA release can be downloaded directly from here:
>> https://vets.development.ucar.edu/nexus/content/repositories/releases/sgf/gateway/1.2.0-RC1/ 
>>
>>
>> For this release the the new installation and upgrade from 1.1.0 guides
>> remain the same.
>>
>> If you already have 1.2.0-BETAx installed upgrade instructions can be
>> found here:
>> https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/esgcet/Gateway+Upgrade+Instructions+%28version+1.2.0-BETA-1.2.0-BETA2+to+version+1.2.0-BETA3%29 
>>
>>
>>
>> Please provide feedback (good or bad!) to: 
>> esg-gateway-dev at earthsystemgrid.org
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> If you have Jira Issue Tracking access, please enter a trouble ticket
>> against version "1.2.0-RC1" under the "Affects Version/s" drop-down.
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>>
>> -Nate
>