ASC Q2 2024 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 2024Q2 Meeting

Date: May 7 & 9, 2024
Time: 10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time each day
Location: Virtual Meeting. Zoom (link in the Active notes Google doc below)
Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Quick Links

Governance Document [latest]

Agenda (Finalized May 2, 2024)

This meeting has a floating agenda with specific synchronization points to keep us on track. Rough time estimates are provided per agenda item, and the co-chairs plan to cover the topics in the order seen below. However, since some agenda items will take longer/shorter than anticipated, an exact start/end timing is not guaranteed, and some items may float to the second day. If you cannot attend the full meeting and are presenting, please let the co-chairs know, and we can plan accordingly.

Day 1: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	10:10 am	Roll Call (We will start roll call promptly at this time)
10:10 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:45 am	*Voting and Break* Voting Link
11:45 am	1:00 pm	Discussion of agenda items

Day 2: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
10:05 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:50 am	*Voting and Break* Voting Link
11:50 am	12:45 am	Administrative and Working Group agenda items
12:45 am	1:00 pm	Closing discussion and wrap up

Agenda Items

Officer nominations:
- Aurelien Bouteiller PMIx v4.2 release manager (replacing Joshua Hursey)
Working Groups Updates:
- IAWG (Dave Solt)
- Dynamic (Isaias Compres)
- Call for new WGs?
Release planning
- V4.2
  - v4.2rc3
  - Tracking issue #508
  - Major errata since v4.2rc2 PR #510
  - Decide if we want to move forward and ratify with #510, or delay to ASC Q4 (maybe Q3?)
- v5.1
Governance PRs up for a Second Vote:
- None
Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote (stable):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote (stable):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
- PR 449 v5.1: IAWG pack/unpack chapter
- PR 500 v5.1: IAWG Process management chapter
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
- PR 510 v4.2: pmix_key_t parameter to PMIx_get/get_nb
PMIx Standard v4.2 ratification vote:
- Governance: procedure exception to accept fast tracking PR #510
- Vote to ratify v4.2rc3
DAY1 Voting Link
DAY2 Voting Link
Plenary discussion items
- Review of on-hold PRs
  - PR 398 IAWG publish-lookup chapter
  - PR 335 resource usage for processes and nodes
- Drift items (on hold for now)
  - https://github.com/openpmix/pmix-tests/actions
  - Triaged items are entered into Issues list with the “Drift:” prefix
  - Note: Not all items identified in scans are needed (e.g., prototyping in openpmix) but once confirmed as gap a new ticket is created.
- Org Chart rework/Open PMIx rapprochement
  - Institutional organization between PMIx Standard and Open PMIx discussion continued
- Website rework
  - Current progress
  - Emphasis on use-cases (reduce perceived complexity of standard/implementation effort)
  - Documentation, ABI
- SPI to HPSF Discussion (on hold)

Meeting Notes:

Attendance

Person	Institution	Day 1	Day 2

Day 1: Jan. 23, 2024: PMIx ASC 24Q1

Next PMIx ASC Meetings:
- Next Monthly: June 13, 2024
- PMIx ASC 2024Q3 Meeting (Format: virtual)
  - July 16 & 18, 2024 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
  - June 18: Announcement deadline
  - July 2: 2 week freeze deadline on all PR changes
- iCal entries available
Release planning
- V4.2 (Aurelien)
- V5.0 (Ken)
  - Changes accepted for v4.2 already merged into v5
  - Plan is to move provisional items to stable to get rid of them
Working Groups Updates:
- IAWG (Dave Solt)
- Dynamic (Isaias Compres)
- Call for new WGs?
  - Proposal to create a new WG trying to close the gap between the implementation and the standard (Conversion WG?)
Officer nominations:
Governance PRs up for a Second Vote:
- None
Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
- PR 510 v4.2: pmix_key_t parameter to PMIx_get/get_nb

PMIx Standard v4.2 ratification vote:
- Governance: procedure exception to accept fast tracking PR #510
- Vote to ratify v4.2rc3
- PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
  - None
- PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
  - PR 449 v5.1: IAWG pack/unpack chapter
  - PR 500 v5.1: IAWG Process management chapter
- Plenary discussion items