Post-7.3 Timeline

July 2003: decision: certify Red Hat 10 beta, goal: November

Sept 2003: RH strategy change (Fedora/Enterprise)

Oct 2003:

LXCERT: continue with 10beta=Fedora

LXCERT: on hold

HEPiX: negotiate wih RH

Feb 2004: negotiations stopped, CEL3

Mar 2004: LXCERT meeting, “real” certification starts

Timeline cont.

May 2004: LXCERT meeting (still no end date, “experiments need 1 month after full Application Area SW is available”, summer period worries)

June 2004: CEL3 -> SLC3, no real impact on certification

July 2004: LXCERT meeting (still no fixed end date, “end of September” target)

July 2004: LXPLUS test nodes available

Aug->October: POOL issue

Summer period: (some) production managers not available

Nov 1st 2004: SLC3 certified

Jan 17th 2005: LXPLUS migrated

Issues:

[non-issue]: Looong delay (negotiations) before real start (6months) – but: allowed OS to settle

Summer period: absences, conflict with DataChallenges, beam time. Avoid? (unrealistic for roll-out in autumn)

POOL issue took too long to emerge+address, was blocking whole production chain: need to 'certify around' identified issues

[non-issue]: LXPLUS migration: delayed by HW unavailability

[non-issue]: non-LHC not reacting (their problem, but influences 7.3 phase-out timeline)

SLC3 certification post-mortem

SLC3 certification post-mortem

Jan Iven

2005-04-21T13:48:53