[Swift-devel] Tool for TeraGrid site info

[Michael Wilde]

I think its best if we do not copy the tg tool. I dont think there are 
any licensing issue with using the tg sites info tool, but certainly are 
issues with putting it into the swift source tree and hence 
re-distributing it. We definitely do not want to do the latter.

Dependencies on the format of the tool we should live with, and adapt 
our code as needed.  I think we want to use, e.g., the REST interface, 
which I would hope they either seldom change, or they attempt to keep 
changes to it backwards compatible.

- Mike


On 5/13/09 1:33 PM, Glen Hocky wrote:
> I'm ok with contributing my code. One thing to note though is rather 
> than using the info as posted on info.teragrid, my script downloads 
> their tool for querying info.teragrid. I did this because I was hoping 
> that their tool would keep a uniform formatting whereas the back-end 
> might change.
> 
> There could however be licensing issues with this usage of their tool....
> 
> Michael Wilde wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/13/09 12:44 PM, skenny at uchicago.edu wrote:
>>> hey ben,
>>>
>>> we are looking at using glen's code as a starting point for a
>>> tool that could be included in swift/committed to swift's svn.
>>> there will need to be quite a bit of testing first as i'm
>>> unsure about committing someone else's code 'as is'
>>
>> If Glen agrees to contribute the code (by signing the license), then I 
>> think you should commit his exact code as the initial revision, and 
>> edit from there.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> ...however,
>>> my other question regarding this is that there is apparently
>>> some *paperwork* involved in this process which would require
>>> me (and glen?) to sign some sort of globus licensing agreement
>>> (?)
>>> i'm unsure of the specifics but could you let me know the best
>>> way to get the ball rolling?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> ~sarah
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:10:14 -0500
>>>> From: Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>  Subject: [Swift-devel] Tool 
>>>> for TeraGrid site info  To: Glen Hocky <hockyg at uchicago.edu>, 
>>>> swift-devel
>>> <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>
>>>> Glen, where is the latest version of your TG sites info tool?
>>>>
>>>> Ben, what should we do to start testing that, making it
>>> uniform with the
>>>> osg tool, and make it available for comments and heading towards 
>>>> inclusion in Swift?
>>>>
>>>> (I think this was commented on earlier - I will track down
>>> when I get
>>>> back to the planning list in a few days from now)
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