ASC Q4 2021 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 4Q 2021 Meeting

Date: Oct. 26 & Oct. 28, 2021
Time: 10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time each day
Location: Virtual Meeting. WebEx information (bottom of the page): https://recaptcha.open-mpi.org/pmix-asc-recaptcha/
Active Notes Link: Google Doc - Please add your name and affiliation.

Quick Links

Governance Document [latest]

Agenda (To be finalized on Oct. 12, 2021)

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 are not able to attend the full meeting and are presenting then please let the co-chairs know and we can plan accordingly.

Meeting Slides (posted after the meeting)

Day 1: Oct. 26 (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (Josh)
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	*Break*
11:45 am	1:00 pm	Discussion of agenda items

Day 2: Oct. 28 (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (Kathryn)
10:05 am	11:30 am	Discussion of agenda items
11:30 am	11:50 am	*Voting and Break* Doodle Vote Link
11:50 am	12:30 am	Administrative and Working Group agenda items
12:30 am	12:45 pm	Technical and Use Case Presentation(s)
12:45 am	1:00 pm	Closing discussion and wrap up

Agenda Items

PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
- Return Codes (Dave ~ 5 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/350
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote
- Assign specific values to constants (Ralph/IAWG ~ 10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/359
- Cross-Version Support Use Case (Josh ~ 15 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/357
Governance PRs up for a second vote:
- None at this time
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional)
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata)
- Fix cut/paste issue with PMIX_DATA_ARRAY_DESTRUCT (Dave ~ 5 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/355
Plenary discussion items
- PMIx ABI (Josh/Dave/Ralph/John ~ 30-45 min)
  - Motivating issue: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/358
  - PR for PMIx constants: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/359
  - Repo to work on a set of headers: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-abi
  - Governance guidance: https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/34
  - Email discussion: https://groups.google.com/g/pmix-forum/c/3FPXZ-k4XMw/m/FDkYWjxCCAAJ
Revision Exception Votes
- None at this time

Administrative and Working Group Agenda Items

Review 2021 quarterly meetings dates and plans

4Q 2021 (Oct. 1 - Dec. 31) - Virtual
 - 2 day: Tues., Oct. 26 & Thurs., Oct. 28

Suggested 2022 quarterly meetings dates and plans
- Doodle Poll

 - 2 day meeting
 - Suggest Tuesday & Thursday during the week
1Q 2022
  - Feb 15 & 17
  - Feb 22 & 24
2Q 2022
  - May 3 & 5
  - May 10 & 12
3Q 2022
  - Aug 9 & 11
  - Aug 16 & 18
4Q 2022
  - Oct. 25 & 27
  - Nov. 1 & 3
  - Dec. 6 & 8

ASC Membership
- Vote on new ASC Members
- Call for new ASC Members
Release Planning
- PMIx 4.1 Release (Josh/Ralph ~ 5 min)
- PMIx 5.0 Release (Ken/Dave ~ 5 min)
Working Group Updates (~ 10-15 minutes each)
- Client Separation / Implementation Agnostic Document
- Slicing/Grouping of Functionality
- Dynamic Workflows
- Tools
- Open Call for New Working Groups
Technical and Use Case presentations
- ...
Additional discussion items