Dear all, the bi-weekly DRMAA call is scheduled on Feb 17th, 2009. The meeting starts at 17:00 UTC == 18:00 CET (Berlin/Poland time) == 9:00 PST (Vancouver time) Phone conference line sponsored by Sun: Phone number (toll-free from US): +001-866-545-5227 Access code: 5988285 Preliminary meeting agenda: 1. Meeting secretary for this meeting? 2. Acceptance of last meeting minutes 3. Voting: sub-state as string vs. sub-state as string to be parsed vs. sub-state as integer / enum 4. Job state discussion We still have the following opinions under discussion: Dan: TERMINATED state = resubmission might help, FAILED state = resubmission unlikely to help (machine problem, misconfiguration) Andre: TERMINATED state = triggered by an external entity, FAILED state = job terminated by itself Roger: FAILED state = job command line could not be executed Drmaa1: FAILED state = job was running, but did not finish successfully for some reason How is the new TERMINATED state related to the wif_ functions ? Issue #5875 (originally form the PBS experience report) criticizes that FAILED currently expresses both user-requested termination and job failure. How is this issue solved by the newly chosen approach ? *Please* spend some thoughts until tomorrow, so that we can come to some final voting here. 5. Replacement for partial time stamp functionality - please check if your DRM / language binding would support our candidate ISO 8601. Latest DRMAA2 draft document is attached. Best regards, Peter.