Technology Working Group - August 24, 2015 

Jason Coposky, Chief Technologist

Agenda

• 4.1.5 Update

• GenQuery V2 Update

• Working Group Call For Participation

• Consortium Repositories

• C++ 14 compliant complier

• Focus for 4.2

4.1.5 Update

• Will release as soon as CI is green
• Additional Platforms: Centos 7 & Power 8 Ubuntu 14
• Fixes for Fuse
• Clean up memory leaks
• Better Error Reporting
• Fix runtime error for full database statement table

GenQuery v2 Update

• Current implementation is not sustainable
  • limited to 12k characters in a query
  • joins across tables is at times surprising
• Cannot move forward with another DB technology
  • GQv1 is central to current iRODS API
• Current queries are limited in capbilities
  • No logical OR
  • No regular expressions
• Prototype is ready to demo
  • Haskell implementation
  • Can query across both node.js graph database and SQL
• Front-end for existing GQ language in development
• Should be ready for experimental use in 4.3

Working Group Call for Participation

• Mime Types
• Persistent Identifiers
• Enterprise Message Bus

Consortium Repositories

• Host Apt and Yum Repositories
  • Proper packages for build dependencies ( externals )
  • Further simplify iRODS distribution
  • Provide proper upgrade path for iRODS going forward
• ​Run In Place will still need to build externals if they cannot install the dependencies
• Interest in hosting mirrors?

Standardize on Compiler

Interest in standardizing on a C++ 14 compliant compiler

• simplify iRODS development going forward
• Current options include Clang and G++
• Chosen compiler will be hosted in the new repository

Focus for 4.2 Release

• Infrastructure
  • ​new setup scripts
  • new build system
• ​Rule Engine Plugins
• Architectural additions