CTA Dev Meeting

Friday 10 Jun 2022, 15:00 → 16:35 Europe/Zurich

600/R-002 (CERN)

Michael Davis (CERN)

1 CTA Release Workflow

• Release procedure feedback (link).
• Improvements to release workflow (#1227, #1129, #Ops-706)

2 CTA Catalogue Schema

Upgrade procedure

• Instructions are available in the following EOSCTA document (link).

Schema - v11

• Milestones link
• Schema-only release.
• Release date TBD

3 CTA Release Roadmap

See CTA Release Roadmap

Release 4.7.4-1

• Milestones link
• Released on 2 Jun 2022.
• Pre-prod deployment 3 Jun 2022.
• Prod deployment date ---.

Release 4.7.5-1

• Milestones link
• Released on 2 Jun 2022.
• Pre-prod deployment 9 Jun 2022.
• Prod deployment date 9 Jun 2022.
• Fixes stress test performance issues (#1225).

Future releases (4.7.x)

Catalogue v11

• Milestones link
• Separate branch: catalogue_v10.1

Release 4.7.x

• Milestones link

TBD

• Update man pages #979, #1093
• [...]

Public Release

• Public Release - Check remaining tasks

4 CTA read support for non-native tape formats (OSM/dCache and Enstore)

• Project roadmap: #1239 Add support to CTA for multiple tape label formats.
• Current focus (CTA team): Refactor tape backend code, to allow new label formats to be implemented.

5 cta-frontend-grpc integration for CTA

• Project roadmap: #1236 Integrate cta-frontend-grpc into CTA repo and RPMs

6 Miguel departure

• Handover of tasks and knowledge-transfer
• Farewell today after meeting :)

7 New CTA features

Needs discussion topics

• Allow VO override for repack (#1210) (discussed already)
• Command to put down a disk instance (#1219)
• Move Repack workflow tracking to CTA (#Ops-763)
• Remove setDriveStatus() from OStoreDB (#1242)
• Multiple frontend management in cta (#1244)

8 AOB

SD-TAB section meeting topics

EOS 4.8.79 regression

• Order of query prepare responses differs from order of requests.
• Version locked since CTA release 4.6.1-1.
• Link #1256

RAL Visit

• Highlights

Meeting Rooms

• Next week FRIDAY CTA dev meeting room 28/R-015. We will alternate between that room and 600/R-002.