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Meeting Minutes

Name: XRootD Developers Meeting
Start: 2024-12-11T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-11T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Zoom only

XRootD 5.7.2 Released
- Security advisory on std::regex to be made public on 13 Dec
XRootD Development
- Plans for XRootD 5.8.0 Release
  - Will begin work to clean up CentOS 7 / Python 2 from repository
  - Client improvement presented at CHEP24 to also be included
  - Considering addition of an i686 build to ensure no breakage on 32bit platforms
    - Emulation with QEMU is normally slow, but 32bit build on AMD/Intel architecture is good compromise
  - Ideally would like to add OSG patches to official release in XRootD 5.8.0
    - OSS statistics/monitoring plugin
    - TLS deferred authentication
XRootD Website Updates
- Dead links for documentation when coming from SLAC redirection
  - Need to replace by hand the domain part to get to the files, looking for a solution
  - GitHub Pages unfortunately doesn't support .htaccess
    - This would have allowed to redirect subdirectories from xrootd.github.io to EOS
- Potential solutions
  - Commit documentation files to git in the website repository (~1.2G, but 930M is for Doxygen)
  - Move to CERN's Openshift PAAS service, serve files with EOS, but use xrootd.org domain for it
  - Use an OpenStack VM hosting all files and point domain to it
  - Ideally will choose between the above before Q2 2025
A.O.B
- FOSDEM abstract for an XRootD talk submitted, but unfortunately rejected
  - EOS and XRootD talks merged, to be presented by Abhishek from EOS team
- Idea to prepare something for WLCG OTF #3 in February 2025
  - Performance tips for using XRootD/XCache in context of Analysis Facilities

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