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Submitting a middleware requirement

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Submitting a middleware requirement

NGI/EIRO Operations Centre Managers can submit requirements for EMI next release on behalf of their NGI and their resource centres. Requirements are collected on the requirements hosted on the EGI RT system.

Who is responsible of processing middleware requirement tickets? Requirements are discussed and prioritized in the framwork of the Operations Management Board (OMB) at least on a quarterly basis, depending on the urgency of the requirement.

Who is authorized to open a ticket?

NGI/EIRO Operations Centre Managers that are members of the noc-managers SSO group and SA1 task leaders.

Opening a ticket on RT

Go to RT, select the requirements queue (top right-hand corner) from the drop-down menu, and select New ticket.

Setting a EMI 2.0 requirement ticket

This section provides information on how to properly set the ticket metadata:

  • Owner: "Tiziana Ferrari" from the drop-down menu
  • Category (leve 1): "Unified Middleware Distribution" from the drop-down menu
  • Category (level 2): Choose the category that best matches the requirement.
  • Category (level 3): Choose the category that best matches the requirement, if any.
  • Requestor (level 1): "NGI or EIRO" from the drop-down menu
  • Requetor (level 2): select your NGI, or "Other" in case your NGI does not appear in the drop down menu
  • Reqiestor (level 3): "no value" from the drop-down menu
  • Technology Tag: select the specific middleware distribution if it is applicable to the requirement, or specify "no value" if the requirement is about a cross-distribution tool.
  • Custom tag: "requirement emi2"
  • Non Functional Tag: select what is applicable from the drop-down menu, depending on the type of requirement
  • Describe extensively the feature requested in the body of the ticket and indicate -if possible- an example of use case.

Priority

Priority can be set after the creation of the ticket. In order to do so, set the ticket priority by opening the ticket URL, select Basics in the blue bar under the ticket title. The priority levels that can be selected are in the range (specify).