EIC/BNL Computing discussion

[Dmitry Arkhipkin <arkhipkin AT bnl.gov>]

Hello All,

IIRC, EIC version has an ability to assign two (or multiple?) 
representatives per institution, has "ex-officio" members in the 
council, and something else. Sorry, it has been a few years since I 
touched it, and I can't log into EIC phonebook right now (.htaccess is 
still misconfigured? Drupal intercepts admin url). So, EIC phonebook has 
features not desired by STAR or sPHENIX (single rep per inst, no 
ex-officio). Moreover, sPHENIX phonebook does not have an "is_author" 
flag, as all members are authors in sPHENIX (major difference in 
accounting). Also, sPHENIX has author lists built into the phonebook, 
while STAR historically uses external author list script (gets info from 
the phonebook, but not part of it). As for emails - Maxim may comment on 
that (or post a screenshot of the admin interface), as I can't log into 
EIC phonebook.

To summarize: making a universal version that covers mutually exclusive 
features will require quite some development and testing on my side. It 
would probably be better to rewrite UI completely using React later, 
when I'm done with migration of STAR website to Drupal 8 (request by 
Jamie & Jerome).

Infrastructure request: it would be great to have a staging/dev VM for 
Drupal and phonebook development. SL7, php 7, apache 2.4+, root access, 
github access, visible from outside of BNL perimeter.. Will create RAECF 
ticket for that.

Thanks,
Dmitry

On 2020-05-07 11:01, Jerome LAURET wrote:
> What is custom as features in the EIC version?
>
>         The discussion we had was in two folds:
>
> * suggestions was made to converge toward a single package
>   (customizable) as features added to one version is not available
>   in another - this way, Maxim could update the EIC one and get all
>   the bells and whistles of the most recent version while selecting
>   the features the EIC need.
>
> + the immediate need is to make sure we have the "Send email
>   to institution reps" and "send Email to individuals" features
>   similar to what exists in the STAR version ...
>   We also need the ability to generate member lists (this may
>   already there?)
>
> If this is already implemented, we are good (the mass Email features
> are needed).
>
>         Thanks,
>
>
> On 2020-05-07 10:25, EIC/BNL Computing discussion via Eic-bnl-comp-l 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Adding Dmitry (please add him to the list if he's not on it)...
> > Regarding...
> >
> >  > PhoneBook - what is the status of the EIC PhoneBook update?
> >
> > ...from what he tells me it sounds like the first thing to be 
> > clarified is exactly what updates/additions are needed from the user 
> > point of view. Different phone book implementations have different 
> > requirements/features.