Rucio Meeting

Thursday 13 Mar 2025, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• March release schedule
  
  • Mar-17 32.8.5 LTS
  • Mar-24 35.? LTS
• 37 "Dungeons & Donkeys"
  • Code Freeze on Mar-20 08:00 CET
  • Mar-24 37.0.0rc1
  • Mar-31 37.0.0 FINAL

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
  • Some difficulties to enrich the transfers with archive metadata.
    • Additional documentation would be helpful.
  • WebUI deployment [from Mayank]:
    • The encoding of slashes in URLs should be fixed, but not yet in a release.
• DUNE
  • Rucio instance migrated to 36.2.0.
• HEP-CCE
  • Sorting out issues with the Submitter to enable Globus transfers.
• DaFab
  • Potential summer school participation.
• CERN IT
  • Exploring ArgoCD (as a replacement for FluxCD).
    • Multiple test clusters fully running.
    • Including work on a unified Helm chart.
    • Slides.
  • Also exploring Vault (as a secret management service).
• RAL / Multi-VO
• ESCAPE
  • Continuing the old data cleaning.

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 3 (Sprint Board) [Mayank]
  • Many items pending review.
  • Reminder: try to set aside time for reviews when estimating your availability.
• Priority Followup for Rucio 37 "Dungeons and Donkeys" major release
  • Todo
    • Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios]
    • Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
    • Improve handling of errors in Rucio REST API calls #39 [Enrique] -> Sprint 3
    • Upgrade to NextJS 15 and App Router #429 [Mayank]
    • Maintain backward compatibility with url's from old webui #131 [Mayank]
    • Integrate OIDC endpoints for Authorization Code Grant Type #507 [Mayank]
    • Rucio dependencies in test environments should be installed the same way ... #344 [Riccardo]
    • Testing: Run rucio/rucio integ tests for PRs in rucio/containers #310 [Riccardo]
  • In Progress
    • Include docker image publication in CI/CD #35 [Enrique] Sprint 1
      • PR merged, but issue with the credentials that requires investigation.
    • Rucio CLI >=36.0.0 Bugs and Suggestions #7224 [Maggie]
    • Fix static code analysis behaviour for functions decorated with @transactional_session, @read_session and @stream_session #6986[Riccardo]
  • In Review
    • Rework OIDC user authentication #7310 [James, Anil] Sprint 1
    • Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512[Hugo] Sprint 1
    • New CLI: Consider switching away from argparse #7253 [Maggie] <-- Other issues would be easier if this is merged
  • Done
    • factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423 [Alex]
    • psycopg2-binary should not be used in production - psycopg2 should be used instead #6669 [Dimitris] Sprint 1
    • Standardize permission policy check logic #7206 [James] Sprint 1
    • Build multi-arch images to support arm64 machines #354 [Riccardo] Sprint 1
• Miscellaneous
  • Setting up a Rucio development environment [Mayank]:
    • Some package related to PostgreSQL (psycopg2) causing issues. Applied a temporary workaround.
    • [Dimitris] working on a script to help boostrap the environment properly.
  • Except additional traffic from potential GSOC students [Mayank].
    • Should they be invited to the #Developers channel?
  • [Janusz] asking about failing tests in #Support.

15:55 → 16:00 AOB