Meeting Minutes

• 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