Attending: Jens (chair+mins), RobC, Matt, JohnH, Winnie, David, Duncan, Steve, Brian, Govind, RobA, Sam

0. No new blog posts

   No operational issues reported, either.

1. Review of the agenda of GridPP40:

   The basic idea is that different people speak, so it's not just the same handful of people who talk the whole
   time; moreover, people should feel they can (and should) contribute to the topics.  We should flesh them out a
   bit more over the coming weeks.  Moreover, if there are missing topics, we could consolidate some of the existing
   ones and fit in more stuff.

   An attempt to find more "volunteer" speakers?  T1 stuff is not covered elsewhere and like we discussed last week,
   it may make sense to include it somewhere in our slots.  RobA should be able to cover this topic.

   EOS is part of the CERN "data lake", so Brian should liaise with Bham; whether EOS belongs in evolutions or in
   data lake is less important at this stage.  Steve will have a think about whether he could compose a nice rant
   about "data science"; the original purpose of the topic (see notes from last week) was whether we could learn from
   others (like climate) or they from us.

2. Site upgrades and stuff like that?

   Sites should publish their SE versions through the inforamtion system (which we queried earlier), but they do
   not reveal the version of their operating system, which may also be differennt for head node and pool nodes.

   There is a wiki page where this information can be maintained (see chat); we should action DTeam to action
   sites to update it.

   As we have discussed earlier, information about upgrade would be useful to have in the wiki if (a) people need it
   and (b) it can be kept up to date and useful.  If no one needs it, it is not worth putting in the effort, and
   if the information is not useful and up to date, people waste time figuring it out for themselves.  The discussion
   at the storage workshop before hepsysman showed that there is a keen interest in sharing information about upgrading
   to CentOS7.
 
3. NOB


jens: (14/02/2018 10:08:37)
http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20180207-minutes.txt
Brian: (10:31 AM)
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Storage_site_status