Alessandra, I agree that experiment software installation is the responsibility of the experiments but I would have thought that you as a T2 coordinator would want to know about the status of your sites. You might not know what everything is but you should be able to advertise it. John >-----Original Message----- >From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >[log in to unmask] >Sent: 04 October 2004 17:24 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Minutes of today's Deployment Meeting > > >Hi John, > >> though. It will be a while before Jeremy and the T2 coords get round >> to checking VO support at all sites, although I will be happy to be >> proved wrong. More important is the experiment software being >> installed (and tested). > >IMO sites can respond only for the environment (LCG+?) >installation not for the experiments software and definitely >not for its testing which is up to the experiments. Even >knowing what software tag is published, as in the case of LHC >experiments, what do we (deployment) know about what that tag >is for, what problems it has, if it is too old or if it is yes >old but still used/needed.... and more importantly do we >(deployment) have to know it? I think it is more sensible if >experiments report this information not us. > >cheers >alessandra >