From ssimms at iu.edu Wed Sep 5 21:02:03 2012 From: ssimms at iu.edu (ssimms at iu.edu) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Wan] Board Update for 9/4/2012 Message-ID: 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 ========== 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. ========== 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. ========== 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.