Rucio Meeting

Thursday 21 Mar 2024, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• 34 Release is out! Thanks everyone for contributing
  • Next patch/minor in 2 weeks
• Big component leadership update:
  • Clients [Maggie, Mario]
    • Maggie to take over as lead
    • Remove Radu
  • Deletion [Hugo, Cedric]
    • Hugo to take over as lead
    • Remove Radu
  • Docker & Kubernetes [Riccardo, Mario, Eric, Hugo]
    • Riccardo to take over as lead
    • Hugo to join as deputy
    • Remove Radu
  • Messaging [Alex, Mario]
    • Alex to take over as lead
  • Monitoring & Logging [Mayank, Mario]
    • Remove Radu
  • Protocols [Maggie, Mario]
    • Maggie to take over as lead
    • Remove Radu
  • Replicas [Riccardo, Alex]
    • Riccardo to take over as lead
    • Alex to join as deputy
    • Remove Mario
  • Transfers [Riccardo, Hugo]
    • Riccardo to take over as lead
    • Hugo to join as deputy
    • Remove Radu
    • Remove Eric
  • Consistency checks [Fabio, Guilherme]
    • Guilherme to join as deputy
    • Remove Igor
  • Dataset deletion [Alex, Martin]
    • Alex to take over as lead
  • Documentation [Martin, Maggie]
    • Maggie to join as deputy
  • Rules [Riccardo, Martin]
    • Riccardo to take over as lead
  • Testing [Mayank, Riccardo]
    • Riccardo to join as deputy
  • WELCOME!
    • 18 different component leads & co-leads now in Rucio!
    • Thank you for your dedication!
• Meeting next week, or too many people on vacation?
• April 4: 35 Release Roadmap planning

15:05 → 15:25 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
• CMS
• Fermilab
  • All clusters, except DUNE on 34
• ESCAPE
• PIC
  • Rucio MAGIC instance on 32
  • Setting up another instance for a Barcelona based research institution (Also 32 LTS)
  • Testing to run Rucio with tokens
    • Test IAM, tests with Rucio

15:25 → 15:45 Rucio 34 "Donkey Potter and the Data Cache" retrospective

34 Release Retrospective

15:45 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Other topics
  • VO tests (To discuss with James)
  • Jupyterlab Extension
    • Lots of effort for update to JupyerLab v4
    • Please reach out to Enrique and Francesc about testing this version of the extension!
• Documentation corner
  • Documentation and dev guidelines for Mypy type annotations #116 [Mayank, Martin]
  • Document environmental variables affecting the client #171 [Dimitrios]
  • Improve documentation on rucio.cfg vs configuration table #183 [???]
  • Add an FAQ-style entry aimed at users for STUCK rules #184 [Fabio]
  • Add instruction about DB partitioning #185 [Martin]
  • bridge the gap between running rucio in demo env and full production deployment #187 [Radu]
  • Introduce documentation on subscriptions #190 [Cedric]
  • Add Rucio QoS RSE description and instructions #268 [Matt]
    • Under Review - Comments posted, needs iteration
  • Document how to set up command line argument completion #275 [Bouwe]
  • Formatting / style guide #287 [???]
  • Document how deletion occurs. #288 [Anil]
  • Instructions for tape collocation plugins #289 [Maggie]
  • Documentation for RSE settings #293 [???]

15:55 → 16:00 AOB