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Agenda

Attendees

  • Josh Hursey (IBM)
  • Kathryn Mohror (LLNL)
  • Thomas Naughton (ORNL)
  • Jai Dayal (Intel)
  • Stephen Herbein (LLNL)
  • Ralph Castain
  • Aurelien Bouteiller (UTK)
  • David Solt (IBM)

Notes

  • Standard Updates
    • v4.0 has been released!
      • Next steps likely to be an Errata release
      • Will be discussing procedures for Errata later today
      • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/325
      • Comments - discussion on errata, consider scheduling of errata releases in possibly more timely/quarterly release (e.g., v4.0-q1) that later get rolled into next release/sub-release
    • V5.x
      • No items ready yet
      • Reach out to release managers for v5 to decide timetable
      • Target items are implementation independent and slicing wg work, and more
  • Process for Errata items
    • Adding a formal process for Errata changes
    • https://github.com/pmix/governance/issues/20
    • Kathryn remarks typos and grammar changes are already handled by another (simpler) process and maybe should be expunged from this PR
    • Stephen asks how it connects to “minor document changes guides” (section 1.2.2 of the governance document); this is what Kathryn referred to above.
    • Topic to appear at the next Quarterly meeting
  • Process for Major text Changes
  • Software in the Public Interest (SPI) - https://www.spi-inc.org/
    • Last meeting gave rough summary and why selected SPI (note, also Open MPI uses SPI)
    • Have low cost for their services, but can add some lag
    • First step, reach out to board to see if project is a “good fit”
    • Got a response after new year.  Had some questions, we plan to use them for finances/hosting meeting
    • They asked if there was a reference implementation for the standard, and pointed them at openpmix, etc.
    • Waiting on response from them.  Seems positive thus far.
    • Regarding questions about how this is being used, implementations.  This raises a good point.  This is not really listed from our website.
      • Would be good to get list of projects using PMIx
      • Example: UnifyFS, etc.
    • There is a page on the openpmix that says who’s using PMIx
    • Would be good to make this more obvious on the website! :-)
    • This is also good way to let others know who is using this work
  • 2020 Year-end video (in place of 2020 BoF)
    • Reach out to WG started to obtain material
    • General achievements over the next years and highlight
    • Each WG would get 10 minutes to explain what they do and how to join/participate
    • General summary and how to participate to the general process
    • Time target is in the next 2 weeks so that its ready before the next Quarterly; please contact if you have material to add
  • PMIx Calendar Subscriptions
    • iCal Subscription
    • Google Calendar
    • The calendar will continually update according to committee published changes
    • TODO - Add alert
    • Contact Thomas Naughton to add items to the calendar (for example, WG meeting schedules)
      • Canceled 2/11/2021 meeting b/c week before Quarterly
  • Working Group Updates:
    • Stephen Herbein: Slicing/Grouping of functionality
      • Updates on use-cases and examples
      • Looking into other figure formats, etc. polishing, then ready to bring for review
      • Looking at Inkscape in lieu of OmniGraphle to have more general/generic file format
    • Shane Snyder: Storage
      • Unavailable for meeting today
      • If current WG time is bad for others, let Shane know and also interested in gathering topics for WG and prioritization, good time to bring up for scheduling of upcoming agendas/plans
    • Jai Dayal: Dynamic workflows
      • Reviewed with many workflows/systems and found basic existing functionality satisfying
      • Planning on next features, looking for more topics
      • Josh will organize a webex for more discussions on the topic
    • Dave Solt: Implementation agnostic document
      • Continue to work through chapters 5-8 and some of 9, get/put reserved keys, synch, etc.
      • Currently focused more on the organization and presentation of the material in these chapters.  Do not intend to have ready at next quarterly (for votes), but continue to work through pieces
      • Currently looking into reserved/non-reserved keys by host environment, and associated problems that come up.  Looking for clear path for what is best approach to have host do things, w/o causing problems with namespaces/conflicts in future
      • Surrounding scenario of a resource mgr introducing an experimental key, and how to have this key have “reserved key” semantics (while not yet ‘official’)
      • Discussion of the 3 roles for the interface
  • Next Meetings and Deadlines
    • Q1 ASC coming Feb 16th, Feb 18th
    • Jan 19th agenda deadline (announce intent); locked-down PR deadline is Feb 2nd (new commit added w/o squash/rebase between the two)
    • No monthly meeting next month because ASC is too close

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