EMT
The EMT (Engineering Management Team) manages short term release priorities for the gLlite middleware distribution. This involves managing updates, scheduling changes and defining developer priorities. There are representatives from JRA1, SA1 and SA3. Longer term objectives are handled by the TCG and filter down to the EMT for release planning.
Current Status
Services are being introduced to gLite3.1/SL4 gradually - please see this
summary. When ready, new services will be introduced to gLite 3.1 as a standard patch.
We currently operate in a mode of continuous updates to the production releases
gLite3.0 and
gLite 3.1. We follow a weekly cycle of releases to PPS. Patches typically remain on PPS for a couple of weeks before being transferred to production.
Integration and build
Patches which have been built and are ready for certification (but not yet taken) can be found here
Patches ready for certification
Certification
The following savannah search shows which patches are currently in certification.
Patches in certification
More information on certification is available here
Cert wiki
Pre-production
PPS currently has the following patches
Patches in PPS
Unreleased patch summary
The full list of currently unreleased patches can be found here - priority is colour coded
Unreleased patches
EMT Meeting minutes
The EMT normally meets twice a week, on Monday and Wednesday. The timetable and agendas are available through
Indico.
The Minutes are linked from the relevant
agenda and are stored on
EDMS.
The rotating responsibility for minute taking is defined
here
Bug Tracking
Certain bugs are judged as being of sufficient severity to be tracked by the glite release coordination team.
BugTracker
This status is independent of the severity defined for the bug, although a correlation between 'critical' bugs and those tracked by the EMT clearly exists.
A tracked bug
- Is a developer priority
- Is explicitly cited in cluster manager's weekly reports
- Will result in a priority patch
Patch submission
Patches are the mechanism for getting a software change deployed. For services that are in development no patches are required.
gLite 3.0.2
The term gLite 3.0.2 is used to refer to the second large set of updates released after the deployment of gLite 3.0.0.
We now operate a policy of continuous updates of services and do not make releases such as this.
It was released on 21/08/06 - more info
here
For components originating from gLite middleware development, relevant tags can be found
here.
The Process
The software process is described in
MSA3.2.
Software License