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AstroGrid-D Software Process: Goals, Challenges, and Action Items

Explore the comprehensive software process of AstroGrid-D, including history, objectives, challenges, and proposed action items for issue tracking, repositories, documentation, continuous integration, and testing.

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AstroGrid-D Software Process: Goals, Challenges, and Action Items

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  1. The AstroGrid-D Software ProcessHans-Martin Adorf (MPA)Thomas Brüsemeister (ARI)Oliver Wehrens (AEI)Astrogrid WS Heidelberg, 24.07.06

  2. S/W Process: Background • History • Task force formed at April ’06 meeting • Report due at July ’06 meeting • Status • Document “Software Process of AstroGrid-D” • Segments covering different aspects • A place for all things to be discussed/decided • Not the “final” standard document

  3. Goal & Objectives • Goal • Make contributing S/W to AstroGrid-D and using it a positive experience • Objectives • Make S/W easily usable on all platforms for AstroGrid-D & other users • Common well-structured repositories • Consistent documentation & unified build scripts • Continuous integration & validation tests

  4. Problems • Problems to overcome • Distributed project • Multiple languages (incl. non-portable ones) • Heterogeneous platforms • No central authority imposing standards/taking technical decisions • Need an efficient decision process (and who is going to decide that?)

  5. Action Items • Action items (in rough order) • Issue tracking • Repositories • Source repository • Release repository • Documentation • Build process • Dependency description • Continuous integration incl. regression tests • Validation tests

  6. How to proceed... • How to proceed? • Not all areas are mature enough for a decision • Collect input from experts: • How to get C/C++/FORTRAN projects to work on heterogeneous platforms? • Plan: proceed in a piecemeal fashion

  7. Issue tracking • Issue tracking • What for? • bugs, feature requests • other (all?) action items • Main contenders: Bugzilla & JIRA • JIRA requires open source license (or money) • Next steps • Send license to JIRA developers • Evaluate JIRA

  8. Source repository • Source repository • All source code that has no other home • Main contenders: CVS & SVN • Task force recommends SVN • VCS structure will be determined by software packages • Next steps • Vote • Install VCS • Formulate policy about its usage

  9. Release repository • Release repository contains all the software in released versions • This can be as simple as a tarball on the public website

  10. Documentation • At minimum: • A README file (simple ASCII) providing a general overview of the package, including a Statement of the internal and external packages (including the version) that it depends on • An INSTALL file (simple ASCII) providing the installation directions. • Code documentation should happen with doxygen and javadoc

  11. Documentation (II) • Apache Maven’s pom.xml provides a nice and easy way to provide a unified look and feel to all web documentation (dependencies, mailing lists, developers, source code repository ... ) • Don’t have to use maven for build process but just can use it for documentation purpose 11

  12. Dependency description • Machine readable dependency description • Makes continuos integration and testing much easier • Maven 2 has a nice model for that defined in a pom.xml 12

  13. Build process • Was asked for a unified build process to easy the installation of AstroGrid-D Software • Cross language build tool • We do favor Maven 2 (again!) • Java based tool • Supposed to work with c/c++ and others but this has not been verified 13

  14. Continuous integration • Continuous integration (CI) is used to make sure the software in the repository compiles and passes defined tests • Several tools are available to do that • Apache Continuum is one possible solution • Overview: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/DAMAGECONTROL/Continuous+Integration+Server+Feature+Matrix 14

  15. Tests • Do we want to do tests for the software itself ? • Do we require that for all software developed by AstroGrid-D ? 15

  16. Action Items • Action items (in rough order) • Issue tracking • Repositories • Source repository • Release repository • Documentation • Unified Build process • Dependency description • Continuous integration incl. regression tests • Validation tests

  17. Vote? • Bugtracking (JIRA, Bugzilla, do people have other experiences)? • Source repository (CVS, SVN) ?

  18. More • Who is going to maintain repositories, build server and does QA on the software to make sure it meets the standards of AstroGrid-D ? • Questions? • Suggestions?

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