Rucio Meeting

Thursday 27 Oct 2022, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• Rucio workshop
• November meeting schedule
  • Nov 3
  • Nov 10 Rucio Workshop
  • Nov 17
  • Nov 24
• CHEP
  • Abstract deadline very soon

15:05 → 15:20 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Kronos issue with accessed information not put to datasets #5938 and #5936
    • Fix in 1.29.8
    • But this needs a retroactive fix for the data not updated
• CMS
• Fermilab/DUNE/Vera Rubin/...
  • Automatix for functional testing setup
  • For Rubin
    • Bootstrapping production cluster
• Belle II
  • Preparing abstract for CHEP on metadata
• SKAO
  • Uploading recursive structure of directories
    • However, containers can only hold containers/datasets not files
• RAL/MultiVO
• ESCAPE
  • Upgrading Rucio version on ESCAPE cluster tomorrow to 1.29.7

15:20 → 15:25 Hot topics

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

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• Rucio 1.30 "The Donkeynator" progress tracking
  • Release date will be end of November
    •  More or less one month left
  • In Progress​​
    • Create a contributor guide for probes #84 [Dimitrios]
    • Exchange `Tombstone` function-based indices with normal indices #5440 [Mario, Martin, Radu]
    • Unable to Delete File DID via Undertaker #5154 [Martin]
      • More complicated than initially thought; still under investigation
    • Rules on containers in state OK but not all the files from the containers have locks #5447 [Martin]
    • Create a server/daemon installation howto #5445 [Joel, Mayank]
      • To check with Joel
    • Add python 3.10 tests to CI framework. #5145 [Mayank]
      • https://github.com/maany/rucio/actions/runs/3332569189/jobs/5513597689
      • stream8 / stream9 containers there
        • Keep fedora35, but remove the others
      • Mostly working, some issues with sqllite
    • Release webUI 2.0 beta version [Mayank]
      • New dashboard almost completed
        • List top N active rules of user and "critical" quotas
      • GSOC student Nimish completes GSOC tomorrow
      • https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/gsoc/blogs/2022/blog_Rucio_NimishBongale.html
    • Switch to pytest [Radu?]
      • 2/3 of test files finished and merged
      • 1/3 to be done soon
    • rework prometheus/statsd metric names #5804 [Radu]
      • WIP PR
  • In Review
    • Adherence to rule grouping dependent on order of ATTACH #5251 [Igor]
    • rework conveyor-throttler #5805 [Radu]
      • Second PR to be merged
  • Done
    • Further ingetragtion of CMS-style consistency checking #5438 [Igor]
    • Remove old readthedocs documentation once the new one is fully operational #5446 [Joel, Martin]
    • Introduce heartbeat handler to all daemons #5443 [Cedric]
  • Todo
    • Create developers testing guide in the documentation #5452 [Joel, Mayank]
    • foreign key error on deleting dids in reaper #5733 [Martin]
    • Re-work/cleanup distance table #5454 [Radu]
    • Merge list_dids and list_dids_extended methods #5448 [Rob]
  • Delayed
    • Refactor the different test workflows to a common one [Ben, Mayank]
    • Add symlinks for the new daemon names #5131 [Joel]
    • Prepare a clear list of changes which need to be made to use new daemon names #5132 [Joel]
    • Document and cleanup discrepancies between surl and lfn2pfn algorithms #5129 [Martin]
    • Reduce rule tickets to les than 20 [Martin]
    • Reduce logging of server & daemons #5449 [Mayank
    • Create documentation page for S3-type storage #5450 [Rizart]
      • Exists as GGDoc (#5284)
    • Add support for S3 virtual hosted buckets #5451 [Rizart]
      • Test on-premise
      • Ongoing support issue with AWS/Fresno X.509 shenanigans
• Other topics
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB