On 16 June 2011 11:46, Stephen Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniela Bauer said:
>> I thought the EMI release means exactly that: It's out and we should
>> sue it.
>>
>> What am I missing ?
>
> That the infrastructure is run by EGI and not EMI ... the theory is that EGI is supposed to certify and repackage the middleware from EMI (and potentially other sources) in something called the UMD (Unified Middleware Distribution), and then put it to staged rollout before officially releasing it. I believe the target date for the release is 4th July.
Really? That seems faster than I'd been led to believe (certainly, an
early estimate was that the certification would take more weeks than
that).
> Whether that turns out to be sustainable is not obvious, it may be that people will just start installing things directly from EMI. In EGEE you could have done the same by grabbing rpms from etics as soon as they were certified, but it was more hidden so there was less temptation.
>
From a GridPP Storage perspective, we're happy to for people to
upgrade from EMI rather from UMD/EGI, for the record.
Sam
> Stephen
>
|