Rucio Development Meeting

Thursday 4 Mar 2021, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:10 News

• March release schedule
  • 1.25.0rc1 today (!!!)
  • 1.25.0 (hopefully) next week
  • 1.25.1 (planned for) Mar-15
  • 1.25.2 Mar-25
• Code Freeze
  • Still active, will merge open PRs to 1.25.1 when over
• Rucio 1.26 "Donkey League of La Mancha" release planning
  • Either next week or the week after, will send announcement

15:10 → 15:20 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Instability with a reaper2 query
    • Query hint in place, was not respected (not sent?) to oracle
    • Manually fixed on oracle side
    • Investigating if there is an issue in sqlalchemy or otherwise?
  • K8s migration
    • Very good progress, still a few things missing (~Months)
    • Judges, need the new memory algorithm
    • Auditor, dark-reaper
  • New rule algorithm
    • Now in the second round of tests
      • No issues found
• CMS
  • Still on 1.24.4; testing 1.24.5 next
• Belle II
  • Issues with setup of WebUI
    • X509 authentication page just does not work
      • BNL requires proxy in front of service, possibly not passing through the certificate
      • Possibly way ESCAPE configures this might be helpful?
  • Moving probes to abacus for reaper2 
    • Eric already working on this #4261
• ESCAPE
  • Moved to 1.24.5 
    • Greedy issue solved as expected
  • Working on an ESCAPE policy
  • Dark-data -> auditor
    • CMS code for consistency checking might be useful here
    • Getting building blocks back to rucio-repo would be good
  • Traces -> Kronos
    • Working with Thomas to get this integrated to ESCAPE

15:20 → 15:30 Hot topics

15:30 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Full stack upload/download/transfer testing [Mayank]
  • Added UploadClient in xrootd protocol tests
  • Will work more on TPC mock RSEs now
  • From Ben:
    • Lots of tests with skip if... 
• Parallel testing [Ben]
  • Good news everyone!
    • ~5m reduction from the GH actions run
    • #4166 
      • noparallel tests should be reviewed; Probably not too hard to rewrite them into parallel
• Documentation [Daniel, Martin]
  • Move k8s tutorial into main doc, need to sort out where exactly
  • pydoc-markdown
    • Daniel had a look on it, not fully working yet
  • Ben will start to look into GH-actions, also pydoc-markdown integration then
  • Recursive inclusion of release-notes
    • Might not work recursively with Markdown
      • Will just do it iteratively
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB