myGrid November 2004 Release Plan

Software

This will comprise:

• Client:
  • Taverna
  • MIRBrowser (user interface plugin)
  • Taverna-MIR-Plug-in (event observer)
  • taverna-provenance (event observer)

• Services:
  • MIR
  • metadataStore
  • lsid-authority
  • lsid-dataservice
  • lsid-metadata

This release will not include Feta, as it is unlikely that planned will be complete in time. We will make a further release, current target date end December, when this planned work is complete. Since the notification service is not yet integrated with the rest of myGrid, we won't include it in this release to simplify deployment, testing and documentation. We do not expect to include a web service workflow enactor in this release.

Documentation

We decided to create a single user guide (rather than per component guides) aimed in this release at the bioinformatician end user. Its focus will be to describe how to interact with the myGrid environment, mainly through Taverna, based on an example workflow. As well as sections that can be linked to particular components, it will contain an overview section that describes the principal interactions 'under the hood' during workflow enactment.

Release management

We will continue to host CVS at Manchester, along with an automated nightly build service for components in the CVS. We will set up a SourceForge project to manage downloads & problem tracking. We aim to supply two download bundles: Taverna plus plugins & all services. The plugins may be included in the Taverna download from http://taverna.sf.net.

Milestones

02 Nov 2004

• Skeleton user document, identifying sections, their content and principal authors
  • responsible: NickSharman
  • achieved 02 Nov 2004 - see http://cvs.mygrid.info/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mygrid/doc/UserGuide.doc

05 Nov 2004

• Taverna 0.1beta12 available. This version will define the Taverna capabilities and interfaces for the rest of the myGrid
  • responsible: TomOinn
  • achieved 08 Nov 2004 - see http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=74874

12 Nov 2004

• Complete draft user guide, all sections completed
  • responsible:
    • as identified in skeleton
    • editors NickSharman, KatyWolstencroft

• All modules building successfully from CVS on myGrid build server
  • responsible: NickSharman
  • achieved 11 Nov 2004 - see http://cvs.mygrid.info:8080/anthill/

19 Nov 2004

• Release candidates available for download from SourceForge
  • responsible: NickSharman, TomOinn

• Revised user guide
  • responsible:
    • as identified in skeleton
    • editors NickSharman, KatyWolstencroft

30 Nov 2004

• Bug-fixed release available for download from SourceForge
  • responsible: NickSharman, TomOinn, module developers

-- NickSharman - 03 Nov 2004