2025-03-05: QGnet CI Internal Team call

Published

March 5, 2025

Participants

  • Matt
  • Jim
  • Trey
  • Robyn
  • Alyona
  • Rushiraj

Activities review

Discussion

  • High-level architecture
    • We should define acronyms (e.g., what is “OGDC”)
    • Add a legend
      • Consider labeling components with different colors
    • Expand the “recipe” box. Show that this is how one specifies:
      • Input dataset
      • data transformations (e.g., reprojection)
  • CI board background
    • Claire Porter: Polar Geospatial Center. Direct experience with large geospatial dataset processing
    • Carl Boettiger: Analytical & GIS background, provides user-perspective
    • Some technologies like Argo and K8s may be new to board memebers, but they have deep understanding of geospatial data processing
    • We should be ready to ask questions and seek advice. The CI board is here for our benefit. concerns.
  • We should develop some slides that describe/introduce the project and setup the discussion around the architecture diagrams
    • Show how things work now, in as much detail as possible. (e.g., how does parallelization work)
    • Walk through an example
  • Sequence diagram:
    • Usually these are much more detailed (e.g., they show specific function calls and what kind of messages are passed around)
    • Not sure the existing diagram adds much
    • We should strive to improve this over time
    • There may be more than one sequence diagram depending on the situation (e.g., reprojecting a very large raster may look different than subsetting a small vector dataset)
  • Documentation developed for this CI board meeting can serve as a foundation for contributor docs that we will leverage near the end of year 2 when the developer workshop takes place.
  • We think that we are close to an MVP dev deployment to the ADC cluster. We think achieving that before the CI board meeting would be good.
    • Plan to meet with CI board sometime in mid-April. Matt Jones to schedule.

Action items