Main Focus

Improving how we get data to worker nodes. Being able to retrieve data on the worker nodes from various sources.
Add notification support to Pegasus
Moving auxillary tools to stampede db
Other Stampede Related Changes
User Guide Reorganization ? Dependant on Bill.

Data to Worker Nodes

The main change for 3.1. The developers document has complete details

Refactor how clustered jobs are handled
Addition of staging-sites option to pegasus-plan
New Shell Job Wrapper for jobs when running on worker nodes
Changes to pegasus-cleanup
Changes to pegasus-createdir
Special S3 support into pegasus-transfer, pegasus-cleanup and pegasus create dir
Bypassing of staging-site while staging in input data
Bypassing of staging-site while staging out output data
Transfer of braindump file to remote workflow execution directories

Monitord needs to support notifications
Requires changes to Pegasus to generate input file for monitord
Come up with default notify scripts in the toolkit that notify the user and generate some status reports.

Improve Rescue DAG semantics
Additional DB schema changes to be able to connect jobs/tasks in the DAX with corresponding kickstart records
Addition of workflow metrics file distribution of jobs into the DB