Hi all, as you know, we had a F2F meeting at SC05. Well, it turned out to be a rather small group, but we had a nice chat ;-) Here are the meeting notes: Participants: Thilo Kielmann Shantenu Jha Yusuke Tanimura Andre Merzky - Charter: We has a discussion with our ADs earlier that day (and the day before. And the days before that... ;-). It seems they are to support our WG charter proposal, but asked us to add: - exit strategy - a milestone to revise the API spec process and the document structure. We did that, the new charter draft (with only these changes) is attached. Please comment this week, otherwise the charter will be submitted to the GFSG as is. - Task model: We agreed that, in order to shorten the discussion, and to keep the OO spec free from language issues, the task model will be described in verbose text in the spec, and the explicit incarnation will be left to the language bindings. We further agreed, that for C++ we are going to implement one or more of the models discussed lately, and to get feedback based on the implementation, and to revise the language binding in respect to that feedback. Otherwise we see the group discussing for quite some time still, while the implementation is stuck at that point... - Issue list: we went through the API issue list. I don't have detailed notes on that, but a check of the CVS logs tells you what we did... As a reminder, the CVS details are on the wiki. - We had backroom talks with the Ninf and GridSolve people at SC, about GridRPC. The direction is still the same: work on including the GridRPC API into the SAGA look&feel. However, the GridRPC API might get revised in that process... - we talked to Keith Jackson, and he agreed on reviewing the python language bindings for the API as soon as we get to that stage (after the C++ reference I guess) - we had an interesting meeting about a message based communication API. That is currently not related to SAGA, but could be interesting in the future. Notes about that meeting will follow to this list, in about a week. Comments/questions/corrections are as always welcome! Cheers, Andre. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andre Merzky | phon: +31 - 20 - 598 - 7759 | | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) | fax : +31 - 20 - 598 - 7653 | | Dept. of Computer Science | mail: merzky@cs.vu.nl | | De Boelelaan 1083a | www: http://www.merzky.net | | 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+