WBS 2.3.2 Requirements Analysis & Capability Delivery (RACD)

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Mission Statement

The Requirements Analysis and Capability Delivery (RACD) team prepares and supports software and services that: 1) enable user access to and use of XSEDE federated infrastructure, and 2) enable infrastructure and service providers to federate with XSEDE. Starting from XSEDE prioritized user requirements (use cases) RACD coordinates the engineering work necessary to integrate software and services into production at SPs and campuses, as XSEDE central services, as external vendor services, or on user personal systems.  RACD uses engineering best practices and tools, works with external vendors and software partners to minimize integration cost to XSEDE, and aims to maximize ROI to XSEDE and the NSF.

Goals, Metrics & KPIs

RACD L3 Metrics

XCI L2 KPIs and Metrics

Team Members

• Position/Role Descriptions
• Non-public Member Information

Communication & Meetings

• Meeting Agendas and Minutes
• Meeting Coordinates

Email Lists

• xci (xci-mgmt + xci-racd + xci-cri)
• xci-mgmt (Dave, Craig, Rich, Shava, JP)
• xci-racd (xci-design + xci-integrate + xci-test)
• xci-design (Lee Liming, Jim Basney, JP Navarro)
• xci-integrate (JP Navarro, Galen Arnold, Eric Blau, Rob Light)
• xci-test (Shava Smallen, Galen Arnold, Choonhan Youn, Christopher Irving, Susan Litzinger, Derek Simmel, Peter Enstrom)
• xci-cri (everyone currently in "campusbridging-list")

New Staff Orientation

• RACD Allocation Access Instructions
• RACD Ticket Management Instructions

Risks

Activities and Projects

Significant new deliverables before the end of the program (completion date)

1. Kepler
2. GCT GridFTP, GSI OpenSSH, and client tools
3. CILogon & idp.xsede.org replaces weblogin.xsede.org (as an identity provider)
   
4. OAuth-SSH as a new way to implement SSH services
5. Globus Connect Server version 5.4 as a new way to implement Globus endpoints
6. CoManage (staff groups, allocation groups, user groups)
7. CVMFS for XSEDE and SP software sharing
8. Enhanced RDR
9. XCI component metrics services for ROI analysis
   
10. Pegasus (collaboration)

Significant completed deliverables (completion date)

1. <IDENTIFY>

Significant retirements

1. Karnak
2. GT6 GridFTP, GSI OpenSSH, and client tools

Resource Discovery Roadmap

Resources

Engineering Process

• Engineering Overview
• Issue Tracking Practices
• Agile Engineering Practices
• Community Software Repository (CSR)
  
  • CSR High-Level Design and Roll Out Plans
• Packaging and distribution material
  • Software Packaging Developer Documentation
  • Software Publishing Repository Administration Documentation
  • Software Packaging and Distribution Design
• Requirements and Plans
• Evaluations

Online Resources

• RACD Google Home
• Archived SD&I Wiki
  
  

Description	Catalog	Source	Published
Use Cases	Registry	Google Drive	Ideals
Capability Delivery Plans	JIRA	Google Drive
Activities	JIRA	Google Drive SVN
Reviews	View
Available Components	Registry	SVN	Development Repo Production Repo
Deployed Components	Registry
Bugs and Feature Requests	JIRA
Tickets	Ticket System

Server and Service Administration

• Google folder 

JIRA and Confluence

• Google folder 

software.xsede.org

info.xsede.org

• info.xsede.org Server Installation and Administration
• RabbitMQ Installation and Administration
• Warehouse Installation and Administration