Some initial discussions of a Fedora HPC SIG

[Orion Poplawski]

Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:44 -0700, Shawn Starr wrote:
>> Hello everyone, 
>>
>> It would be great if we can kick off the SIG.
>>
>> 1) Which day and time would be good for the meetings in #fedora-meeting 
>>
>> The available times are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel
> 
> I'm free most days after about 14:00 or 15:00UTC.

Mon-Fri 15-18, 19-23 best for me.

>> 2) Let's come up with an initial agenda.
> 
> Defining what should be in a reasonably complete HPC Comps group
>   Define a complete component list
>   Pick which of those components should be default vs. optional
>   Identify packages not yet in Fedora that are on the list and
>     allow people to sign up to get them through a review process
>     and in Fedora
>   Identify any shortcomings in upstream standards for HPC
>     packages (there's a lot here, eg. the upstream MPI groups
>     don't have the faintest clue on how to get together and
>     create a standard installation layout or anything else)
>     Where upstream has no clue about doing things in a standard
>       way, at least work to create one inside the framework
>       of Fedora and attempt to push it to upstream if they are
>       receptive of the idea.
>     Identify packages in Fedora that need updating/changing to
>       meet said standards
>     Allow people to sign up to work those changes if the package
>       maintainer is unable to do so
> 
> Something along those lines ought to get things started.

Looks good to me.

I haven't indicated my interest before, but I am.  I maintain 
gridengine, paraview, hdf5, gdl and some others.


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