Andrew, JSDL-WG has been discussing seriously, as far as I am concerned, for the last couple of OGFs what to do once the Activity specification is done--now in PC so that's ok. There is a fairly well understood set of next steps. I'll outline the top two here: 1. SPMD 2.0 - Start with an experience document for SPMD 1.0 and use the requirements generated for SPMD 2.0 - Morris has the most comprehensive set of requirements, which he presented to JSDL-WG last March. One can say that there is some work along this path already, albeit very slowly. We need some additional involvement. - I'll take the blame for not starting the experience document over the summer. Busy with real work (tm). 2. Adoption of GLUE XML schema - Pending on a GLUE normative XML schema published by *OGF*. Work on this seems to have restarted recently, but I am not sure what the exact state is. - Requires cooperation with BES-WG since we have to narrow down to the set useful for job submission - GFD.137 outlines using GLUE and XPath/XQuery for resource requirements. Personally I *don't care* how requirements are expressed as long as there is sufficient consensus. This usually means that there are people willing to work on something... I know people like to say 'JSDL 2.0' but, really, in the best tradition of divide-and-conquer there are a set of well-understood steps that can evolve things forward. As such I do not see the need for a BOF. I think it would actually be counterproductive because we'd go back to talking about what to do rather than doing it. The real question is whether there are people willing to work on these. A related question is whether they would be willing to work in JSDL-WG. At the last OGF it wasn't clear to me that this is the case. Do you have other ideas on what should be at the top of list? Andreas On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:19:48 +0900, Andreas Savva <andreas.savva@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
[Posting on behalf of Andrew]
------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Andrew Grimshaw" <grimshaw@virginia.edu> To: "Andreas Savva" <andreas.savva@jp.fujitsu.com>, jsdl-wg@ogr.org Cc: "'Mark Morgan'" <mmm2a@virginia.edu>, "'Morris Riedel'" <m.riedel@fz-juelich.de> Subject: JSDL 2.0 BOF? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:09:53 +0900
Andreas,
I’d really like to have a JSDL 2.0 BOF/WG meeting in Brussels to seriously start looking at how to upgrade JSDL to accommodate lessons learned in use. I’m sure you all have discussed this. Is there a plan on how to proceed? Or can I work with anybody on moving forward? JSDL has been very successful – but we need to keep up with new requirements of others will define their own specs.
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