ASC Q1 2023 Meeting

PMIx Standard Administrative Steering Committee (ASC) 1Q 2023 Meeting

Date: Jan. 24 & 26, 2023
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 Jan. 10, 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 cannot attend the full meeting and are presenting, please let the co-chairs know, and we can plan accordingly.

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

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
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: (10 am - 1 pm US Central Daylight Time)

Start	End	Topic
10:00 am	10:05 am	Gathering (--)
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:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Provisional):
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading (Errata):
- Add const to string parameters (Ken ~10 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/430
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Second Vote:
- None
PMIx Standard PRs up for a Reading and First Vote:
- None
Plenary discussion items
- Publish/Lookup Chapter (Dave ~30 min)
  - https://github.com/pmix/pmix-standard/pull/398
Revision Exception Votes
- None
Presentation of the v5.0 Standard Release Candidate for discussion (Ken/Dave)

Administrative and Working Group Agenda Items

Review quarterly meetings dates and plans

1Q 2023 - Virtual
  - Jan. 24 & 26 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
2Q 2023 - Virtual
  - May 9 & 11 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
3Q 2023 - Virtual
  - July 18 & 20 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)
4Q 2023 - Virtual
  - Oct. 17 & 19 (10 am - 1 pm US Central)

Elect new officers
ASC Membership
- Vote on new ASC Members
- Call for new ASC Members
Release Planning
- PMIx 4.2 Release (Josh/Ralph ~ 5 min)
  - v4.2rc1 is available for review. Expected release 1Q 2023
- PMIx 5.0 Release (Ken/Dave ~ 10 min)
- v5 Draft for Approval
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
- Josh Hursey (IBM) "A separated model for running rootless, unprivileged PMIx-enabled HPC applications in Kubernetes" (Presented at CANOPIE-HPC)
Additional discussion items