Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:15:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Squyres 
To: OSCAR core 
Subject: [Oscar-core] Revised: IU agenda

Ok, adding it what people have sent, and since Ben broached the topic of
packages, I added in a list of updates that I had in an old agenda (we can
talk about these in any level of detail that we want -- to include 0).
If we can agree on the major topics to cover, I'll try to put these in a
chronological order so that we have a sequence of items to go through
during our time at IU:

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* Administravia:
  - Jeff: Election of new OSCAR working group chair
  - Stephen/Ben: OSCAR conference update

* Short / long / really long term planning
  - Rich: Strategic goals for OSCAR
  - Jeremy: more OSCAR goals
  - Stephen: Goals for OSCAR for next SC

* Big features (likely to affect architecture)
  - Jeff: Add/delete package
  - Jeremy: Real multi-distro support
  - Jeremy: SuSE
  - Ben: Debian
  - Jeff: Next generation OSCAR installer (MetaMenu)
  - Jeff: Upgrade path for OSCAR
  - Sean: RPM-izing OSCAR
  - Sean: Hardware abstraction layer (e.g., IPMI)

* Little features (localized changes, or mundane/grunt work)
  - Tom: MAC collection enhancements
  - Ben: Database Organization = Common Information Management
  - Ben: Oscar Node Definition = More Flexible Framework
  - Ben: Internationalization = Making OSCAR universal !
  - Ben: config.xml and multi-distro issues

* Simultaneous efforts
  - Ben: Thin-oscar progress
  - Stephen/Chokchai(may dial in): ha-OSCAR

* Packages
  - New packages:
  - Ben: Benchmark Package
  - Stephen: Globus
  - Jeremy: clumon
  - ?: infinband / MPI
  - ?: myrinet / MPI

  - Upgrades:
  - Sean: SIS new version
  - Jeff: disable-services configurator support
  - Tom: c3 configurator support
  - Neil: ODA allow DB username/passwords
  - Neil: pfilter configurator support
  - Jeremy: Maui scheduler version
  - Jeremy: PBS node auto-detection
  - Jeremy: pbs configurator support
  - Jeremy: MPICH configurator support
  - Jeremy: kernel_picker configurator support
  - Jeremy: loghost configurator support
  - Jeremy: opium configurator support
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