Some of you might have seen that the second production release of the EU
DataGrid software (1.2.0 after 1.0.0 at the start of this year) has just
been made. This is now being installed on the application testbed machines
at partners' sites.
A second 1.2.1 release is planned in 10 days time, including an updated
version of Globus which fixes the recently discovered OpenSSL security
weaknesses. WP6's recommendation is that sites other than partner sites
should wait until 1.2.1 because of the large number of packages affected.
For UK support, WP6 has a set of webpages with: detailed instructions for
installing EDG Testbed software at your site; a mailing list (tb-support)
for sites to ask for help (this includes instructions for how to subscribe
and the list archives); a link to information about the weekly phone
conferences; and an outline of the release and joining procedure.
The web pages can be found at: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/tb-support/
Our intention is to hold short, weekly phone meetings (less than 1 hour)
to cover the software status and site-by-site status, with the emphasis on
raising issues and allocating effort to them rather than trying to solve
things during the meeting itself. From site admins' point of view, the
meetings should provide a concise overview of where the Testbed stands;
from WP6's point of view, it should provide an "early warning" before
problems get serious or widespread.
Our intention is to have a meeting at the end of this week/start of
next to discuss the current status of sites which have tried 1.2.0
(knowing they will have to redo things for 1.2.1 very soon) and the
general status of the software release.
Again, details of these can be found at the above URL, and announcements
will be made via the tb-support list.
Cheers
Andrew
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http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/~mcnab/ +44-161-275-4227
Grid Research, High Energy Physics Group, University of Manchester
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