[Go-essp-tech] ESG-CET Meeting Notes 8/18/2011

[Eric Nienhouse]

Hi All,

Notes from today's 8/18/2011 ESG-CET telco.

Cross posting to go-essp-tech as some items (replication and auth-z 
tokens) will be discussed at the next GO-ESSP Tuesday telco.

Agenda:

1. Gateway release 1.3.1 and 2.0.0-alpha, status of PCMDI deployment
2. Migrating from tokens to certificates: necessary steps and schedule
3. Replication status report
4. Interface specification progress reports: Search, Registry, metadata 
on hold till Sep., others?
5. RPI OPeNDAP status report, release schedule
6. Other critical issues that require near-term attention

Attendees:

Don M., Nathan H., Nate W., Rick B., Eric N., Roland S., Ross M., Ann 
C., Bob D., Alex S., Patrick W.

Minutes:

Don noted many on vacation, light attendance expected.  Dean W. is on 
travel.

1. Gateway release 1.3.1 and 2.0.0-alpha, status of PCMDI deployment

Gateway versions 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 have been released and are available 
for production upgrades. Both versions have important fixes regarding 
search consistency problems and production systems should move to 1.3.1. 
Version 1.3.2 will be available in about a week with improvements to the 
user registration and OpenID login workflow which we discussed in the 
8/4 meeting.  Eric noted the 1.3 version is an important release in 
support of v2.0.0 search improvements which are a priority community 
need based on CMIP support requests.  Bob plans to upgrade PCMDI as top 
priority to v. 1.3, likely next Tuesday and may take Eric up on offer to 
help.  Don stressed the urgency of upgrading based on conversations with 
Karl. 

2. Migrating from tokens to certificates: necessary steps and schedule

We briefly discussed this topic, noting a need to commit to a schedule 
for deprecating token use.  Bob asked if NCAR is off tokens.  NCAR is 
not, pending user communication, coordination.  Bob asked if there are 
any release dependencies for this process.  Yes, including cleanup of 
thredds catalog of auth-z token hints.  Don noted that certificate based 
downloads have stumbling blocks and workflow can be improved.  The 
Gateway team is reviewing.  We all agreed improving user documentation 
(eg. FAQs) is a necessary step.  Don mentioned the StackOverflow like 
CMIP5 FAQ Stephen has prepared as a valuable tool.  Bob and others 
agreed.  Eric and Bob took an action to review end user communications 
and documentation in support of migrating off tokens.  We'll discuss in 
next week's go-essp call.

3. Replication status report

Ann reported Craig is on vacation and needs to coordinate with Bob next 
week.  We'll discuss replication further at next week's go-essp call 
with Bob, Craig and Estani as key attendees.

4. Interface specification progress reports: Search, Registry, metadata 
on hold till Sep., others?

No reports on this item.  Search and Registry leads Luca, Gavin are out 
of the office.  Don noted Gavin had an action from the 8/4 meeting to 
deliver a new registry specification and the need to follow-up.

5. RPI OPeNDAP status report, release schedule

Patrick reported a new release of the OpenDAP server will be available 
tomorrow with Ferret support.  He is waiting on clarification on 
deprecated thredds attributes from Nathan Potter.   Certain attributes 
are not implemented as a result.  This release will likely be labeled 
"Beta."  Eric noted an action from last meeting was to test publishing 
to the OpenDAP service at PCMDI when ready.

No additional items were raised and we adjourned after a record ~25 
minute call.