From Java CoG Kit

Contents 1 Status 2 Information 2.1 Incubator Product Metadata 2.1.1 Status 2.1.2 Release Schedule 2.1.3 Roadmap 2.1.4 Committers 2.1.5 Mailing Lists 2.1.6 FAQ 2.1.7 Policies 2.1.7.1 Guidelines for committers 2.1.7.2 Guidelines for individual contributors 2.1.8 Contributors

Status

The Globus Incubator management project has decided that they are at this time overworked and do not have the time to review our project. Hence in the interest of other projects to be incubated first the CoG Workflow project has been asked by the Incubator Management Project to submit at another time.

We like to help out the IMP team and therefore postpone our incubation phase till the team has time to review it. However we like to keep our candidancy active and as we believe the process has changed, we like to inquire about what needs to be done in order to fulfill the candidancy status.

We hare maintaining a Wiki page at CoG Workflow Incubator project that reflects the last status when the IMP had decided they do not have the time to review it.

Information

The Java CoG Kit (http://www.cogkit.org) provides three different mechanisms of supporting Workflow.

• First, we have Java API abstractions for specifying workflows based on direct acyclic graphs. As the Graph is based on a task model, anything can be a node in the graph including invocations to WSRF, Web Services, GT2 servers, SSH servers and so forth.

• Second, we have a very sophisticated workflow engine and language, that allows easily to specify workflows through some simple constricts. Important to note is that the language is extensible and based on XML while also providing a functional programming language.

• Third, we have a prototype Grid shell that enhances the normal set of UNIX like commands to include Grid features. This project is still in the alpha stages.

More information about the CoG and Workflows in general can be found at http://www.cogkit.org

Incubator Product Metadata

Status

The status as part of the GT Incubator Process is: "not yet accepted ProtoProject", as defined by the Incubator Process Guidelines found at http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Incubator_Process.

Release Schedule

We intend to release the next version of the CoG Kit before SC06. You can find out more information about the existing releases from http://www.cogkit.org

Roadmap

Once we are accepted as a project our first task will be to refine the roadmap. If you like to see an intermediate step to this you can find it on the http://www.cogkit.org Web page.

Committers

• Gregor von Laszewski
• Mike Hategan
• Deepti Kodeboyina

Mailing Lists

For now:

• http://wiki.cogkit.org/index.php/Mailinglists

Once we get accepted as an incubator project we will include in our roadmap an action items that activates the following mailinglists.

Developer discussion: cog-workflow-dev@globus.org
User discussion: cog-workflow-user@globus.org
Announcements: cog-workflow-announce@globus.org
Commit notifications: cog-workflow-commit@globus.org

For this new mailing lists you can find documentation on how to subscribe, unsubscribe and search via:

How to subscribe
How to unsubscribe
Search the email archives

FAQ

• FAQ: http://wiki.cogkit.org/index.php/FAQ
• Documentation: http://wiki.cogkit.org/index.php/Java_CoG_Kit_Documentation

Policies

In addition to the Globus Alliance Project Guidelines, are specified by the guidelines for committers and contributors.

Guidelines for committers

Commits are done on a regular schedule once a month.

Guidelines for individual contributors

In case of questions, contributors should get in contact with the project lead.

Contributors

Please send e-mail to the Gregor von Laszewski to have your name added here.