perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> Joe, Fausto, all
>
> The current perfSONAR bundle contains the Command Line MP product 
> developed by RNP. So, certainly, it cannot be easily renamed to 
> geant2-perfSONAR-bundle. In fact, Guilherme Fernandes is the developer 
> of the perfSONAR bundle installer.
>
> I thought the perfSONAR bundle is the product tested and recommended by 
> the perfSONAR consortium. As perfSONAR release management, we worked 
> hard to make sure that the perfSONAR bundle works with multiple 
> programming languages and installation methods (ant, perl, etc). 
> Fausto's CACTIperfSONAR belongs to a new breed of products (something 
> that we expected). I was under the impression that Fausto (and other 
> developers) would like to have it included into into the perfSONAR 
> bundle when it was stable enough.
>
> But this doesn't have to be the case. If the current bundle were to 
> become geant2-perfSONAR bundle, then the current release management will 
> probably have to be called as geant2-perfSONAR release management (i.e, 
> internet2 would probably do its own release management and maybe RNP 
> chooses to do the same).

Hi Loukik,

You have a valid point. In thinking more about this, the names Joe suggested are 
not inclusive enough of the groups that created them. These names are more 
tilted toward who has done the work for the release. But, the names should 
probably be more about the target audience.

The main problem I see going forward is that I am not sure how much sense it 
would make to put the LS or SNMP-MA that we have developed in perfSONAR-PS in 
the same bundle as the Java LS and Java RRD-MA.

Somehow we need to give the users enough information to decide what is 
reasonable to install together. I thought the 'bundle' concept was that. Perhaps 
we can do something similar to what Joe said, but tie the name more to the 
target audience?

These audiences could be as simple as things like:

MDM
LHC
North American Universities

But, this could be a bit too specific... It could end up creating far more 
bundles than anyone would want to deal with.

Anyone else have a better idea?

jeff (I'm going off-line now until Tuesday)