OpenWIS Technical Committee 2020 March

20th and 27th March 2020, Teleconference

20 March 2020

Welcome and introductions
- Steve Olson (SO) (TC chair) welcomed all present.
- The attendees were:
- SO - Steve Olson, National Weather Service, USA [NWS], Chair
- BS - Benjamin Saclier, Météo-France, France [MF], Vice-chair
- WQ - Weiqing Qu, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia [BoM]
- JA - Jude Anthonisz, OpenWIS Association Secretariat
- JR - Jeyoung Ryu (KMA)
- Not present:
- DP - David Podeur, Météo-France, France [MF]
- MV - Mikko Visa, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland [FMI]
- MP - Mikko Partio, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland [FMI]
- KL - Kwangjae Lee, Korea Meteorological Administration [KMA]
- SS - Stephan Siemen, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
  Forecasts [ECMWF]
Discussion of Governance surrounding future OpenWIS builds
- SO - gave an overview of the proposal and key points.
- WQ - Is it clear which aspect of the code need updating and is this covered as part of the CICD work?
- BS - We have a list of the areas that need updating and I get Zhang to present.
- JA - Can we sign-off now as not much attendance at this meeting?
- All - Agreed some amendments for the proposed governance arrangements
- JA - We can suggest that this meeting was agreed in principle and give recommendations on 27 March 2020
- All – Agreed the content and layout of the agenda.
Discussion about timing and what to include in middleware upgrade now that we have a new 3.14.9 build with Java 8, Centos7, Wildfly 15, etc
- WQ - All listed items seem to be that should be done.
- SO – In term of the process, there needs to be an open process for the wider community.
- BS – Re security service, the key one is to replace OpenAM and
  OpenDJ with an opensource identity server - Keycloak.
- SO- does it work with Sonar Cloud?
- BS - also works with auto registration. Everything is configurable.
- SO - Postgres 10 vs 11? As we have been with version 9 for a while?.
- SO - If CentOs7 adopted then Postgres 10 comes with it. Postgres
  11 requires a separate build.
- BS - we don’t use much Postgress functionality, so shouldn’t be any difficulty.
- SO - agreed but if you are managing a system, it is much easier to patch items that come natively.
- BS - We should change the RFP to ask for CentOS 8.
- WQ - we use Redhat.
- SO/BS - CentOS is a branch of Redhat but free.
- WQ - In process of moving to Redhat so CentOS is going to be in use for a while.
- BS - We can ask the RFP to say able to run on CentOS 7 and 8.
- BS- All OK with this?
- All - Yes.
- BS - time-scales?
- WQ - RFP is as it with the amendments proposed.
  - BS -another TC is needed.
  - SO – the next session will be on 27 March 2020.

27 March 2020

Discussion on new CI/CD environment for builds
- SO gave an overview of the CI/CD work:
  - Quick brief out (tools: travis-ci, sonarcloud)
  - Videos for Day 1 and Day 2
  - Presentations used during training. This was emailed to TC mailing list
  - Successfully built a 3.14.9 release with Java 8. It’s available in github
  - Build Team established. It’s not too late to join!
  - Discussion of Governance surrounding future OpenWIS builds
- SO – presented the proposed governance arrangement.
- ALL – agreed 
Discussion about timing and what to include in middleware upgrade now that we have a new 3.14.9 build with Java 8, Centos7, Wildfly 15, etc (Timing for RFP)
- It was agreed that the updated RFP document will be available by June or July 2020.
- The aim if to consider alternatives to openAM/OpenDJ.
- Both MF and NWS staff will team up to look at this alternative.
- The benefit to the Association is that, if this can be done within the partnership, it will greatly reduce the middleware refactor effort that would need to be done via a third party supplier.
- Depending on the length of the procurement process for work that
  needs to done by a third party, all refactoring is forecast to be complete by December 2020.
- At present, indicative budget of 50k Euros is envisaged for work to be done by a third party.
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