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Staged Rollout

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Introduction

The EGI Staged Rollout is a procedure by which certified updates of the supported middleware are first released to and tested by Early Adopter sites before being made available to all sites through the production repositories. This procedure permits testing an update in a production environment that also is more heterogeneous than what is possible during the certification and verification phases. It allows for potential issues with an update to be discovered at a small scale and potential workarounds to be added to the release notes. In some cases an update may even be rejected. The Staged Rollout serves to increase the confidence in the quality of the updates that pass, such that the vast majority of the sites should experience smooth updates. Sites are invited to participate in the Staged Rollout for services that they have a particular interest in, with the proviso that they may need to debug issues with a particular update and in any case should report their findings. Such participation can be of great value to the production infrastructure and is appreciated!

Regular EGI Meeting's

Regular EGI meetings about updates or upcoming software releases on which the current status of products performing the staged rollout are discussed.

Grid Operations Meeting

Regular meeting about updates on upcoming software releases, operational issues, software deployment problems, news concerning tools deployed and more. Agenda and minutes GridOpsMeeting


URT Meetings

URT is a coordination group, under the EGI SA2 umbrella. The goal of URT is to continue some of the coordination activities carried out by the Europan middleware projects (e.g. EMI and IGE), keep the communications active between product teams and to open a new communication channel between the EGI and the middleware developers.

Agenda and minutes URT meetings agendas

Staged Rollout procedures and workflow

The page Staged-rollout-procedures contains the procedures and workflow during the staged rollout phase. It is still subject to updates and some of the technical implementations in the RT queue staged-rollout will be done soon.

The wiki description follows closely the document: https://documents.egi.eu/secure/ShowDocument?docid=260

Early Adopter teams should try to follow the described procedures, and give feedback for improvements.

Early Adopters


Reminder: members of Early Adopter teams need a EGI SSO account.


Tools

Collaboration between EGI and WLCG

EGI received an expression of interest from WLCG to integrate the WLCG Middleware Readiness working group. The main goal of this group it's not only to improve the quality of the middle-ware products available to the WLCG sites but also to increase the speed at which new products or releases are available to sites while avoiding the duplication of effort. This could be achieved by sharing experiences and improving the communication channels of both communities.


The work, discussions, meetings, technical information will be handled in this wiki page: [WLCG Middleware Readiness]



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