Steve,
Thanks for the follow-up summary - it covers what I had planned to send out this evening.
I agree with the requests to keep a history of VOs that have been removed (each entry would benefit from a date when it was moved to the 'Removed from approved list' section).
The PMB delegated VO approval to the ops team unless there is a contentious issue or a significant resource impact from enabling the VO. That aside, and given that the ops portal allows for national VOs to be defined (and we use it for configuration updates … and I think we already agreed that we should have VOs we create/support registered) I will contact the EarthScience (the UK one) VO manager and ask them to submit a request to be added to the portal; as they are already active I do not see the need to drop them Ewan. Future VO creation should follow the EGI procedure which has as a step addition of the VO to the ops portal.
Jeremy
On 8 Oct 2013, at 17:09, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Jones
>>
>> Following on from the discussions at the ops meeting this morning, these
>> changes have been made to the Approved VOs document at
>> https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
>>
>> 1) EarthScience is now listed as an Approved VO, but its records are not
>> present in the ops portal and it is not published or maintained
>> automatically.
>>
> I'm not sure this is something we've ever actually nailed down as policy,
> but I think we should - nothing should make it onto the approved list
> without an Ops portal entry. Being 'approved' should require policy
> approval from the PMB, _and_ operational approval from the ops team, and
> FWIW I can't see why we'd want to approve a VO who's admins can't be
> bothered to just create the Ops portal entry. Plus it's a security hazard
> because we then don't have things like contact addresses in the standard
> place.
>
> So, does anyone have any objections to:
> - Making the existence of an ops portal entry a requirement for approval,
> - Dropping EarthScience until they sort themselves out?
>
> Ewan
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