ASC Q3 2023 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 3Q 2023 Meeting

Date: July 18 & 20, 2023
Time: 10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time each day
Location: Virtual Meeting. WebEx information (bottom of the page): https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-asc-recaptcha/
Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Quick Links

Governance Document [latest]

Agenda (Finalized on July 3, 2023)

This meeting has a floating agenda with specific synchronization points to keep us on track. Rough time estimates are provided per agenda item, and the co-chairs plan to cover the topics in the order seen below. However, since some agenda items will take longer/shorter than anticipated, an exact start/end timing is not guaranteed, and some items may float to the second day. If you cannot attend the full meeting and are presenting, please let the co-chairs know, and we can plan accordingly.

Day 1: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	10:10 am	Roll Call (We will start roll call promptly at this time)
10:10 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:45 am	*Break*
11:45 am	1:00 pm	Discussion of agenda items

Day 2: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:50 am	*Voting and Break*
11:50 am	12:30 am	Administrative and Working Group agenda items
12:30 am	12:45 pm	Technical and Use Case Presentation(s)
12:45 am	1:00 pm	Closing discussion and wrap up

Agenda Items

Governance PRs up for a Second Vote:
- None
Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/484 (Dave)
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/485 (Ken)
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/486 (Dave)
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/487 (Aurelien)
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/488 (Aurelien)
- https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/489 (Aurelien)
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- None
Plenary discussion items
- Broken links in v2 and v3 standard
  - Issue: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/378
  - PR (v2): https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/432
  - PR (v3): https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/431
- Discussion regarding spawn info (Thomas)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/400
- First pass at IAWG pass at pack/unpack chapter (Dave)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/449
- Minor edits to Events chapter (Dave)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/443
Revision Exception Votes
- None

Administrative and Working Group Agenda Items

Review quarterly meetings dates and plans

4Q 2023 - Virtual
  - Oct. 17 & 19 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
1Q 2024 - Virtual
  - Jan. TBD (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
2Q 2024 - Virtual
  - May TBD (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
3Q 2024 - Virtual
  - July TBD (10 am - 1 pm US Central)

ASC Membership
- Vote on new ASC Members
- Call for new ASC Members
Release Planning
- PMIx 4.2 Release (Josh/Ralph ~ 5 min)
  - v4.2rc1 is available for review. Expected release 4Q 2023
- PMIx 5.1 Release (Ken/Dave ~ 10 min)
Working Group Updates (~ 10-15 minutes each)
- Client Separation / Implementation Agnostic Document
- Tools & Dynamic Workflows
- Open Call for New Working Groups
Working time on drift between OpenPMIx and PMIx Standard
Working time to triage remaining v4.2 work items
- PMIx 4.2 Release
Technical and Use Case presentations
- TBD
Additional discussion items