Software management working group

Candidate work items for 2008

• Problem reporting tool: Enable sending of email reminder
• Hypernews: Migrate to a new system:
  • require users to register, addressing spam.
  • use default http port 80, current port 8080 is blocked for some users.
  • allow for moderation, further addressing spam.
• Investigate native system tools for binary distributions, e.g. rpm.
• Code Migrations to new OS and compiler versions
• Ongoing support for releases
• User support for installation and configuration, including support for the 'configure' script
• Building of binary releases
• Ongoing support of G4 tools, services, and servers
• Move MySQL DB and Geant4 web to servers managed by IT.
• improve internal documentation for tools
• review security of tools in use