August 28th DRMAA-wg Meeting Minutes Attendees: Hrabri Rajic, Andreas Haas, Peter Troeger, Dan Templeton, Roger Brobst A. Meeting secretary for this meeting? + Roger Brobst B. Acceptance of the last meeting minutes + July 31 minutes accepted without change request The Language-Independent spec was mistakenly marked as a new independent doc, not as a second stage GDF.22 doc update Steven Newhouse has been contacted and has indicated that the wg needs to add a few lines summarizing the changes (this will not restart and timelines). General consensus to add the requested information to LI spec. AI: Hrabri has agreed to notify Steven that requesed changes will be added. AI: Hrabri has volunteered to summarize the changes and and post summary for further discussion. C. Presentation of updated IDL spec for OGF 21 + Peter distributed link to updated IDL spec, which now contains more details about reestablished sessions and reaped jobs. Specifically, Section 9, page 23 has rearranged text from the LI spec; and jobProgramStatus is now jobStatus. There are no new semantics. Just more text, mostly copied. The document is in the "OGF21" folder. AI: Provide Peter with feedback on above changes * Discussion about 5.16 InvalidJobException : The job specified by the given job id does not exist, or was already reaped by a call to Session::synchronize() with dispose==TRUE. AI: Since the wait() description discusses reaping, it should also be part of the exception description. AI: Dan to update Java binding spec with the jobStatus method renaming. AI: Although spec enumerates drmaa calls which may precede drmaa_init(), it is desirable that the doc for the *_control and *_job_ps routines reiterate that drmaa_init() should be called previously. Regarding OGF21 .. Dan is planning on attending at least part of the time. Peter has also requested a DRMAA session with 45min about the IDL document and the expereince reports. No answer so far. Rough consensus that that the OGF session would be a good opportunity to clarify our intention of publishing IDL and Java docs after the LI spec has been approved with the ADs (to avoid misunderstandings about the wg future). AI: Be clear that we're continuing the DRMAA work with the IDL spec. Regarding coordination of public comment period (DRMAA, Torque) ... + Desirable to continue to gather feedback to ensure that we follow the intent of comment period. We have 2 months for the LI spec. Possible contributors: Posnan guys, SAGA folks, Sun customers