ASC Q2 2022 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 2Q 2022 Meeting

Date: May 10 & May 12, 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 April 26, 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: May 10 (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: May 12 (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:
- PR 35: Update major release guidance (Ken)
  - https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/35
- PR 36: RFC: allow major text changes to ship in minor releases (Aurelien)
  - https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/36
Governance PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- (ABI) PR 34: Guidance on ABI stability (Josh ~5min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/governance/pull/34
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
- Touch up debugger attributes and constants (Ralph ~10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/382
- (ABI) 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:
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- (ABI) Add ABI language to the standard (Josh ~10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/375
- (ABI) Assign values to remaining constants (Ken ~10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/394
- (ABI) Add PMIX_QUERY_ABI_VERSION (Josh ~10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/397
Plenary discussion items
- PMIx ABI (IAWG/Ken ~ 20 min)
  - Primary issue: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/issues/365
  - Repo to work on a set of headers: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-abi
- PMIx Publish / Lookup (IAWG/Dave ~ 30 min)
  - Working PR: https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/398
Revision Exception Votes
- None

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 4.2 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