ASC Q1 2022 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 1Q 2022 Meeting

• Date: Feb. 15 & Feb. 17, 2022
• 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 (Finalized on Feb. 1, 2022)

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.

Day 1: Feb. 15 (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: Feb. 17 (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
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

• Governance PRs up for a Second Vote:
  • None
• Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
  • PR 35: Update major release guidance (Ken ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/35
  • PR 36: RFC: allow major text changes to ship in minor releases (Aurelien ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/36
• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
  • Add several IOF attributes (Ralph ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/380
  • Add some missing attributes and one API for server support (Ralph ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/384
  • Provide static initializers for PMIx structs (Ralph ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/385
• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
  • Define when PMIX_PARENT_ID is set (Dave ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/376
  • Clarify PMIX_CMD_LINE in the spawn case (Dave ~5 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/377
• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
  • Assign specific values to constants (Ralph/John/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
• PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
  • Touch up debugger attributes and constants (Ralph ~10 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/382
  • Convert several macros to APIs (Ralph ~10 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/383
  • Rework of material from Chapters 5-8 (Dave ~45 min)
    • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/387
    • Above broken into 4 commits to help with review:
      • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/390
      • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/391
      • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/392
      • https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/393
• Plenary discussion items
  • PMIx ABI (IAWG/Ken ~ 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
  • TBD

Administrative and Working Group Agenda Items

• Review 2022 quarterly meetings dates and plans

1Q 2022 - Virtual
  - Feb 15 & 17 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
2Q 2022 - Virtual
  - May 10 & 12 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
3Q 2022 - Virtual
  - Aug 9 & 11 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
4Q 2022 - Virtual (tentative)
  - Oct. 25 & 27 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)

• 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
  • Tools
  • Dynamic Workflows
  • Open Call for New Working Groups
• Technical and Use Case presentations
  • TBD
• Additional discussion items

Meeting Notes:

Attendance

Person	Institution	Day 1	Day 2

Day 1: Feb. 15, 2022

Day 2: Feb. 17, 2022