EGI-InSPIRE:SiteAdminUserGuide

Document ToC

The ToC follows the virtuous cycle of EGI

Defining the release contents (Michel)

• Requirements-driven content priorities
  • UCB requirements
  • OMB Requirements
  • Which of that software is taken into the Software Provisioning workflow

• Reconcile community requirements
  • Aspired output is an update of the UMD Release Schedule
  • The exact process of reconciliation
    • Open issue!

Software Provisioning (Alvaro)

• Software Delivery
  • The sources of software (i.e. EMI, IGE, EPEL, Platform)
  • For TP only their main repository, we never pull from anything else
• Verification
• StageRollout
• UMD Release Building
  • Major versions (when and why do we release major versions)
  • Minor versions (ditto)
    • Explain the concept of roll-up releases)
  • What happens when the software has been approved by SR?

Release Schedule (Enol, Michel)

• When and how often do we release a major
  • At most once a year
  • Closely located with major releases of EMI and IGE

• When and how do we release minor releases

• Where is the release schedule hosted
  • http://repository.egi.eu
  • Changes in the schedule will be published as RSS feeds

• What will the schedule tell you
  • Major versions
    • High-level list of non-backwards compatible changes,
    • Addition of new platforms
    • New features
    • List of products
    • Planned release date
  • Minor versions (i.e. roll-up updates)
    • List of products (new, or updated)
    • Planned release date

• Flagging and progress
  • Green ticks (or so) for successfully provisioned products that are not yet published
  • Yellow exclamation mark for products that are in danger of being delayed
  • Red crosses for products that failed verification or StagedRollout

Site Admin's UMD Repository HOWTO (GRNET)

• General procedures
  • How and where to get the repo files
    • The Repo Files for each corresponding Major are availble in the repofiles directory inside their corresponding Major e.g. http://reposiotry.egi.eu/umd/1/repofiles
  • Dedicated RSS channel for publication of products into the UMD Production repository (TBC)
  • Release notes
    • Where to get them
    • What they contain (for major and minor)

• Production Sites
  • Necessary repositories
    • Platform (such as SL5 64bit)
    • EPEL repository
    • UMD Repository

• Early Adopters (SR) Sites
  • Necessary repositories
    • Platform (such as SL5 64bit)
    • EPEL repository
    • UMD Repository
    • UMD Early Access
    • PPA repository for the product in StageRollout