Time/Place

• Time: 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time US (UTC-5)
• Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7035
  • Participant Code: 479307#
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Attendees 

• Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)
• Bethany Seeger (Amherst College)
• Nick Ruest
• James R. Griffin III
• Andy Wagner
• Unknown User (acoburn)

Agenda

1. We have consensus on the test plans
2. Next step: execute via JMeter (early Fedora example)
3. ...

Minutes

Consensus on Test Plans

 Achieved consensus, 5 people have liked the Page)

JMeter Test Implementation

• Other actions is to put together the quite simplest JMeter tests 
• (Just creating default containers) 
• (More about the mechanics about dealing with JMeter) 
• Some attendees of the calls have expressed some interest in the past
• Thus far, haven't heard from anyone regarding implementation 

Utility within the Ongoing Development of Fedora

• Modeshape is undergoing a major release next year 
• Discussion of an alternate implementation 
• Tests would assist in proving out the API 

 Baseline of tests now would be beneficial

 A service (Blazemeter) can be hired (by DuraSpace) for JMeter test plans (executed in scale using, Amazon Web Services)

Progressing with JMeter

• Is it a matter of updating these configuration files?
• XML or GUI for creating the test plans 

Experience regarding JMeter

• A. Wagner: New to Fedora...have used it on numerous occasions
• A. Woods also bears experience
• N. Ruest is quickly working to gain experience
• J. Griffin is a complete novice

• Would it be helpful to contact parties responsible for the legacy Fedora 3.x JMeter tests?
• The outlook is grim (due to the age of the work)
• Looking through commits...Nigel Banks, Chris Beer and Adam Soroka appear as contributors
•  Also, there is not much a learning curve with JMeter...more a matter of time
•  The limiting factor is time (more than anything else)

• Essentially, create the containers, and gauging by the speed of the response of the server, pass or fail the tests
• Ultimately, get to having JMeters for all 6 cases within the plan
•  Then, decide what to do with the information
•  Esme Cowles has been undertaking some testing
•  Baseline of information drives the components of Fedora which must be adjusted in order to improve performance
•  Note that the JVM configuration is included within the system profile

 
First Test Implementation Team 

•  N. Ruest leads
•  J. Griffin volunteers
• A. Wagner is unavailable until 01/04/16
  • Can look to offer hardware for building different boxes 
• N. Ruest can spend next 1-2 days addressing this test
•  Various test cases with different clients can be planned
•  Incremental effort, where the initial creation of containers...building on itself for the container creation, and then look at the other tests
•  72 hours of N. Ruest's dedicated time will be invested in these efforts
• Following the updating of this Confluence Page following the call, N. Ruest will comment and update on the status of his labors
  • Indicate any obstacles by Wednesday afternoon
  •  Should avoid forking the existing GitHub repository
    • Include the JMX file alone into a new repository

Long Term Goals 

 Ideally, make substantial progress before February 2016

•  Get a sense of how much effort it shall consume, produce a better estimate
•  No strong commitments this far...
•  Nice on the next call to have a better sense of when this initial set of tests shall be scripted out
  

Scheduling the Next Meeting

•  Propose a meeting be scheduled into early 2016
•  A. Woods shall be unavailable throughout the early year (no access to WWW)
•  Hopefully have that meeting before A. Woods returns
•  N. Ruest proposes 01/11/15 11:00AM (EST)

• • A. Wagner authors an agenda Page
  • Agenda will be filled in with updates regarding the progress with the tests

Outreach

• Reaching out to other parties which have, in the past, expressed interest in performance should be explored
  • U. Michigan
  • Hydra-in-a-Box at Stanford U.
•  It would be ideal to bring in other groups (beyond the core Fedora committers)