Dear All
As mentioned in my mail earlier today (regarding the meeting on Friday
http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a052215) 2.4.0 has now been
released. EGEE has agreed that it is reasonable to expect sites to
upgrade within three weeks of a published release date. In this case the
1st day is 7th April (as 2.4.0 was only tagged on 1st April not
released). This means ALL sites should have upgraded to 2.4.0 by
Thursday 28th April. Sites that have not upgraded (for whatever reason)
will be flagged as failing the critical Site Functional Tests. These
tests are used in populating BDII files which means that sites running
the old LCG version are likely to be excluded from running jobs.
I have to report weekly on how likely the UKI region is to meet the 3
week target. Unless I hear otherwise I assume that ALL sites will be
upgrading in this period. The GridPP Project Management Board and LCG
Grid Deployment Board are very concerned about sites failing to take
seriously the need to upgrade in a timely manner, which is why the
upgrade times for sites are now being recorded. I am happy to raise
reasonable concerns about being able to meet the 3 week window but if I
do not hear your views I have few arguments to present! As mentioned,
there is now a general consensus across EGEE that 3 weeks is a
reasonable period and I am assured that future release dates (the next
is 1st July) will be met given experiences with this latest release. To
allow some contingency it may be good practice to schedule manpower for
the 2nd or 3rd week of the 3 week upgrade period as updates will not
take more than a few days - but again this is my perception and there
may be problems I can not see. If so please tell me as it is within
everyone's interest for Tier-2s to meet resource levels committed to
GridPP and LCG.
Finally I believe most sites have moved away from RH7.3. For those that
have not may I remind you that there are strong security reasons for not
remaining with RH7.3!
Kind regards,
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: LHC Computer Grid - Rollout [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Markus Schulz
Sent: 06 April 2005 13:07
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LCG-ROLLOUT] Release of LCG-2_4_0
Dear Site-managers,
after tests installations by Gergely and Eygene we now announce the
release which was scheduled for the 1st of April.
You find the release material as always here:
http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/cgi-bin/index.cgi?
var=releases
LCG-2_4_0 is a major release and we hope that you can find time to
upgrade within the next 3 weeks.
Of course the 3 weeks (3*5 working days) start from the 7th.
Please contact us and your ROCs for problems that you encounter during
testing.
markus
p.s. If you see problems with R-GMA after the upgrade, it might be
related to the registry at RAL being moved to the new version as well
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Markus Schulz
CERN IT
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