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Current Developments

The developments we are currently working on are listed below. They come from the agreed development list, as defined by the Operational Tools Advisory Group (OTAG) who filters and prioritizes user requests.
(related: [GOCDB development items is available in the EGI RT ticket tracker])


The GOCDB role/permissions model will be updated

in order to cater for a finer grained permissions currently emerging as a new EGI requirement. More information available here: GOCDB/Release4/Development/NewRoles

Establish a central GOCDB readonly failover

A central GOCDB webportal failover will be installed at Fraunhofer ITWM. A DNS switch for the 'goc.egi.eu' domain between the production server and the failover server is in place. Once installed, the failover will be readonly in order to prevent data-synchronization problems.

Explicitly indicate if all SEs of a site are in downtime through the PI

Support for Virtual Site Entities (VSite)

There is a requirement to group existing Service Endpoints (currently grouped under their corresponding 'owning' physical Site) under a new 'Virtual Site' entity, see: GOCDB/Release4/Development/VSites

Support Multiple GRIS Endpoints

GOCDB/Release4/Development/MultipleGRIS

Redevelop the xml_output module to implement nested XML collections [not confirmed]

probably using the Query2XML package. This is necessary because the existing XML Output module will only generate flat XML documents (e.g. that often map to individual DB entities). Currently SQL joins/associations between Sites, SEs and URLs cannot be represented as hierarchical/nested XML documents (for example, consider nesting multiple EndpointLocation objects and URLs within a single ServiceEndpoint element, see: Media:GocdbGlue2UnicoreV2.pdf). It is likely that this is a requirement for regionalisation to implement the proposed XML 'synch' docs described at: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/GOCDB/Release4/Regionalisation/Data_Transfer_Format

Regionalisation

Feedback

Feedback received on the new system is given at: GOCDB/Release4/Feedback

Development Roadmap