Rucio Meeting

Thursday 19 Sept 2024, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• Rucio Workshop

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
  • updated_collection_replica job
    • Work ongoing
• Fermilab / DUNE / RUBIN
• DaFab
• CERN IT
• ALTO

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

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• 36 "Donkey Unchained" roadmap
  • Todo
    • factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423 [Alex]
    • Allow for token providers other than IAM #6630 [Dimitrios]
    • Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios]
    • Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
    • Make WebDAV protocols on par with GFAL #6633 [Dimitrios]
    • Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo]
    • Improve docstrings #6628 [Riccardo]
    • Evaluate archive workflows for rules (Using an archive as a source) #6643 [Riccardo]
  • In Progress
    • Make new token support Multi-VO compatible #6406 [Dimitrios]
    • Review operations where SSL verification is disabled #6632 [Dimitrios]
      • Split into two?
        • Separate server (transfer) / client
        • Suggest to put transfer (fts) change into major release
      • Bundling of certificates needed
    • Retire RSE limits #6629 [Erling, Dimitrios]
    • Prepare replacement of current policy import with policy packages #4798 [James, Martin]
      • Belle II policy -> check with Cedric
      • ATLAS policy -> is there, but needs to be deployed
    • WebUI Tracker 36 [Mayank, Viktoria]
      • X509 auth -> Being tested (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
      • Many smaller issues
      • With streaming fix, refactoring the rules pages
      • 35.2 release coming (Some pages using older "buggy" streaming, others the new one)
    • Refactor all ATLAS-related code into ATLAS policy package #7027 [Riccardo]
    • Better define unit tests and integ tests #7007 [Riccardo]
    • Improve test coverage #7008 [Riccardo]
  • In Review
    • Allow permissions to optionally return a message #6580 [James]
      • PR #7001 approved
    • Re-write and standardization of client command structure #6639 [Maggie]
  • Done
  • Delayed
• Documentation corner
  • Document activities used by rucio-daemons #326 [???]
  • Generate "Configuration parameters" documentation page automatically, to avoid mismatches between documentation and code #325 [???]
  • Error when trying to upload file with custom name containing slashes #336 [???]
  • Make a table for all daemon and its functionality #296 [Hugo]
  • Documentation (developer): Add guidelines for testing API-related changes #322 [???]
  • Documentation for RSE settings #293 [???]
  • Document how deletion occurs. #288 [Anil]
  • Introduce documentation on subscriptions #190 [Cedric]
  • bridge the gap between running rucio in demo env and full production deployment #187 [Hugo, Giovanni]
    • PR #349 approved but not yet merged.
  • Add instruction about DB partitioning #185 [Martin]
  • Add an FAQ-style entry aimed at users for STUCK rules #184 [Fabio]
  • Document environmental variables affecting the client #171 [Dimitrios]
    • PR #366 approved but not yet merged.
  • Changing auth_type should invalidate current Rucio authn token #321 [???]
• Other topics
  • PR on policy packages
    • Broke dev environment, is it fixed, does it still need change?
    • Should be resolved

15:55 → 16:00 AOB