Hi Matt,
On 13 Aug 2013, at 10:47, Matt Doidge wrote:
> Heya Elena, Chris and Jeremy, some creative mail Frankensteining below.
>
>>> NGS decommissioning.
>>> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=95833 ral-ngs2
>>> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=96141 oxford-ngs2
>>> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=96128 manchester-ngs2
>>> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=96538 NGS-SHEFFIELD
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>> NGS-SHEFFIELD ( https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=View_Object&object_id=474&grid_id=0) is not UKI-NORTHGRID-SHEF-HEP and not a GRDPP site. So it's 54 tickets.
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> I don't just review GridPP tickets, I review all the NGI_UK tickets (and not just because that's how the GGUS ticket search works!). It's useful to keep an eye on what's going on in the NGI just in case it affects us in some way. Afterall, forewarned is forearmed!
This is indeed our task. There are generally few NES/NGS issues and some NGI tickets are usefully picked up in the review.
>
> > On 12 Aug 2013, at 16:47, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> >
> > Indeed. It is, however, likely that we'll be asked to decommission the
> > NGS VO at some point in the not too distant future.
> >
> > I suspect that's the right thing to do. There's this small doubt in my
> > mind that having actually got it working, it may be useful for running
> > across Tier-2s (but perhaps the GridPP VO fulfills that role).
> >
> On 08/12/2013 05:22 PM, Jeremy Coles wrote:> Hi Chris/All
> >
> > Several NGS/NES sites have requested not to be removed from the GOCDB but to be certified instead, so the ngs VO may yet have its supporters. It is supported at nearly the same number of (though interestingly not entirely overlapping) sites as the gridpp VO.
> >
>
> If there's still life in the ngs.ac.uk we want to let sites know as soon as possible - I know that here at Lancaster we were going to cut the ngs VO at the next cluster reinstall and I suspect we wouldn't be the only site to take that view - chopping and changing VOs is the kind of thing you roll into a cluster reinstall.
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Understood. We will aim to make a definitive statement on several VOs in the next week or so (e.g. minos and supernemo).
Jeremy
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