CTA Dev Meeting

Friday 9 Jun 2023, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

513/R-068 (CERN)

Michael Davis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:10 CTA Release Roadmap

Release 4.8.8-1/2

• Release date: 02/06
• Pre-prod deployment date: 05/06
• Prod deployment date: 07/06
• Milestone link
• All changes on main, including new encryption logic developed by Vova
• Release 4.8.8-2 needed just for fixing XrootD-5 release

Release 4.8.9-1

• Release date: 09/06
• Pre-prod deployment date: 09/06
• Prod deployment date: 13/06
• Milestone link
• Pure catalogue release 13.0

Public Release

• Latest version available on public repo: v4.8.7-1, v5.8.7-1

15:10 → 15:20 CTA dev topics

EOS-5

Dev test setup tested and working:

• Merge request link
• Procedure on how to setup dev test environment needs to be updated on EOS-CTA docs

List of related dev tasks by priority:

• 1 - #362 - High Priority - Always delete 0-sized files from EOS namespace
• 2.1 - #278 Improvements to eos stagerrm command
• 2.2 - #343 Replace EOS "stagerrm" command by "evict"
• 3 - #210 [EOS] Modify STAGE polling (GET) logic to take into account files not queued on CTA
• 4 - #389 Add a MGM configuration entry to override the URI returned by the .well-known Tape REST API
• 5 - #390 HTTP TAPE REST bulk prepare attributes when file does not exist

Other topics:

• EOS-5 deployment to production

"Needs discussion" topics

• Issues link

"Dev issue needed" topics

• Ops issues link

Some topics:

• We can remove the "EOS-5 deployment to production" topic. This will be covered in the operation meetings.
• We discussed the SonarCloud implementation with Fons. It will run asynchronously, on the merge requests, and email it's creators when there is a problem. This wil allow us to test it.
• We can start using Ninja-Build tools with CTA

15:20 → 15:30 dCache Integration

AOBs

15:40 → 15:50 AOB

AOBs

15:50 → 16:00 CTA dev board review

Objective

• Look at the active issues in our CTA dev board.
• Decide if they should be kept, removed, reassigned, prioritised, etc.

Review "Blocked" labeled issues

• Full CTA board: link