Rucio Meeting

Thursday 24 Oct 2024, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

1 News

• Component leads: Ticket Review ongoing, please pick a slot!

2 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Tape Archive Metadata
    • Working well
    • Activity based priority not working - being fixed
  • Old (web)UI
    • Username/password form can be disabled
      • Although not used, security asked for the form removed completely
    • Will be removable in next release
• CMS
• Fermilab DUNE/RUBIN/etc
• DaFab
  • Filtering to target nested metadata fields
• ALTO
• EIC
  • Policy package deployed
  • Metadata catalog connection - PR opened

3 WebUI Student work report

Speaker: Viktoriia Myts

Rucio WebUI Internship.pdf

Rucio WebUI Internship.pptx

4 Developers roundtable

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• 36 "Donkey Unchained" roadmap
  • Todo
    • Allow for token providers other than IAM #6630 [Dimitrios]
      • Depend on #6406
    • Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
      • Depend on #6638, but is also top priority
    • Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512[Hugo]
      • Martin-Check
    • Evaluate archive workflows for rules (Using an archive as a source) #6643[Riccardo]
  • In Progress
    • factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423 [Alex]
    • Make new token support Multi-VO compatible #6406 [Dimitrios]
    • Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios]
      • Will be experimental, but is top-priority
    • Review operations where SSL verification is disabled #6632 [Dimitrios]
      • One part will be done, another not (client parts)
    • Retire RSE limits #6629 [Erling, Dimitrios]
      • Martin-Check
    • Prepare replacement of current policy import with policy packages #4798 [James, Martin]
      • Belle II policy -> check with Cedric [on Martin]
      • ATLAS policy DONE
    • WebUI Tracker 36 [Mayank, Viktoriaa]
      • On track
      • X509 fix
        • Two options, need to decide which one to go for
      • CMS Bugfix will be in release on Monday
    • 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]
      • Please review! (Need comments from Dimitrios, Mario, Riccardo)
        • Dimitrios will look on it tomorrow (Oct-25) - design/interface from user PoV
      • Needs a rebase for the codecov spam
      • We should merge Erics rich-clients PR first, otherwise rebase will be difficult since Erics internship ended
  • Done
  • Delayed
    • Make WebDAV protocols on par with GFAL #6633 [Dimitrios]
    • Improve docstrings #6628 [Riccardo]
• 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]
    • PR #295 underway
  • Introduce documentation on subscriptions #190 [Cedric]
  • Add instruction about DB partitioning #185 [Martin]
  • Add an FAQ-style entry aimed at users for STUCK rules #184 [Fabio]
  • Changing auth_type should invalidate current Rucio authn token #321 [???]
• Other topics

5 AOB