[cdwg] Board Update for 9/4/2012

[ssimms at iu.edu]

Hello!

I probably know most of you, but for those of you that don't, I'm Stephen 
Simms and am the community board member for OpenSFS.  Pam Hamilton and 
Terri Quinn made the great suggestion that I function as a liaison between 
the board and the working groups.  Toward that end, I will be sending you 
periodic updates on what the board is up to and will be available to you 
if you have questions and/or concerns.

Thanks!
Stephen Simms

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Board Meeting for 9/4/2012

OpenSFS Website

OpenSFS has approached LoudDog ( http://www.louddog.com/ ), the company 
responsible for the Whamcloud webpages, to help us retool our web 
presence.  Josh from LoudDog has been talking with Pam Hamilton and Chris 
Morrone to make sure that the working group requirements are satisfied. 
Norm has been and will be involved with the CDWG to help define their role 
in this new web design.  LoudDog will also be talking with the board to 
make sure that the marketing approach has a tone appropriate for our 
organization.  Soon, LoudDog will be sending a proposal to OpenSFS for 
review which, if reviewed favorably will lead to mock-ups of their 
proposed design.  It is the board's wish to have the new site implemented 
before SC12.

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The CDWG was asked by the Board to determine the process for the next 
official maintenance release for Lustre and a plan for going managing 
future maintenance releases.  At the end of May the CDWG wrote to the 
board articulating their plan.  Chris Morrone's summary of the plan:

·         Next official maintenance branch will be 2.4 (end of March 2013)
·         Official maintenance branches will start every 18 months
·         Official maintenance branches will be supported for 3 years

After some discussion about deadlines and schedule slippage, the board 
came to consensus.  The board supports and is aligned with the CDWG's plan 
moving forward.  Thanks to all of you for the time spent working on the 
plan.

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The OpenSFS Test Cluster deployed at Indiana University ran its first 
tests two weeks ago.  Chris Gearing and Joshua Kugler of Intel are working 
with IU Sysadmin, Justin Miller to run Intel's automated Lustre testing 
framework for the purpose of testing Wang Di's DNE code.