- ESAP vision document continues to progress; feedback welcome
- Technical progress based on this vision:
- Recent focus has been on the interface between ESAP and IDA facilities. Good model for this now developing.
- “Shopping basket” prototype demonstrated and looking promising!
- Need to start focusing on batch compute use cases as well; story there currently significantly weaker.
- WP5 workshop in July.
- Aiming for the 19th; detailed schedule will be forthcoming.
- This is required to satisfy project milestone MS31 “Second WP5 workshop to evaluate prototype performance”. This milestone was slipped from February due to Zheng being unavailable.
- Material will include a discussion of the ESAP vision, demo of current capabilities, discussion of future plans.
- Question/suggestion about the https://project.escape2020.de/projects issue tracker.
- Following Jutta's nice introduction to this tool a month or two back, my impression is some projects and people have started using it actively, and others... haven't. This runs the risk of mismatched expectations and misunderstandings.
- If this tool is a key part of our workflow (and I think it would be useful if it were), we need a common understanding of expectations and workflow. Not just “here are the things the tool can do”, but “here is the way everybody is expected to use the tool; here is how we will be using it to track work in progress and results; here is how we will manage and refine this process”.