D4Science Infrastructure

Here I report a number of issues that are preventing users to integrate algorithms with the e-Infrastructure. These issues are related to communication problems between SAI and the Workspace.

1. files extensions are automatically changed: if my process is a compiled process named "cprocess", and I have integrated this process by invoking it from command line, in the zip package this is automatically renamed as cprocess.sh and my integration does not work. This transformation may be discovered by expert users but not by common users.

2. Randomly, after pressing the Repackage button, there is some error at deleting the previous project zip package and, from that moment on, the zip file on the Workspace remains locked. This prevents any other Repackaging operation and there is no other way than starting a new project from scratch to go forward. This is critical, since it may destroy a user's work of several days.

3. Randomly, a project's full metadata information is not correctly reported to SAI and thus is not correctly saved on the Workspace. When this error occurs, the SAI project is compromised and cannot be neither saved nor opened. Also in this case a new project should be started from scratch.

I will share a SAI project among us in order to test these aspects.