Rucio Meeting

Thursday 26 Jun 2025, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• July & August meeting schedule
  • Summer schedule: Fortnightly meetings
  • Jul-03
  • Jul-17
  • Jul-31: Rucio 38 retrospective
  • Aug-14
  • Aug-28: Rucio 39 planning
  • Sep-4: Back to regular schedule
• Rucio 38.0.0 "Donkirk"
  • Feature Freeze Jul-16 12:00
  • All PRs to be included in the release MUST be submitted, with passing tests, by then

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

• ATLAS
  
  • Request for new WebUI
    • SSO Login
• CMS
• DUNE / RUBIN (Fermilab)
  • Unexpected Rucio server restart
    • Some time due to high load possible
    • Looking into the problem
• ePIC
  • Moved to 37 release line
• DaFab
• CERN IT
• IHEP
• ESCAPE

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 6 (Sprint Board) [Dimitris]
  • So far so good
  • Again: Lots of PR in review
  • Sprint discussion (Mayank)
    • How do we deal with tickets in Review?
      • Policy: Move them to the next Sprint, if they can actively work on updates?
• Priority Followup for Rucio 38 "Donkirk" major release
  • Todo
    • Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios]
      
      • Update?
    • Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
      • Update?
    • Make 0 the top protocol priority #6312 [Dimitrios]
      • Update?
    • Developer Guidelines for Reviews, Testing Requirements #538 [Martin]
    • Integrate OIDC endpoints for Authorization Code Grant Type #507 [Mayank]
      • Switching iron-session to auth.js
    • Run rucio/rucio integ tests for PRs in rucio/containers #310 [Riccardo]
    • Rucio dependencies in test environments should be installed the same way they are installed when Rucio is installed as a package #344 [Riccardo]
    • Merge rucio/rucio/etc/docker/ and rucio/containers/dev #7532 [Riccardo]
  • In Progress
    • Re-Factor test infrastructure #7667 [Dimitris, Karan, Mayank, Riccardo]
      • Caching DONE
      • Simplifying Autotests next
    • Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo]
    • Fix static code analysis behaviour for functions decorated with @transactional_session, @read_session and @stream_session #6986 [Riccardo]
      • Martin will check
    • New CLI: Release 38 Bugs/Improvements #7658 [Maggie]
      • Martin will check
    • Metrics API endpoint: include UNKNOWN sources #6565 [Maggie]
      • Martin will check
    • race in token creation when running multiple clients on same host #7185 [Maggie]
      • Martin will check
    • EPIC: Migration to NX Monorepo #549 [Mayank] 
      • Going well
    • EPIC: UX Improvements #547 [Mayank]
  • In Review
    • factorize duplicate messaging code into a common module or class #6423 [Alex] 
    • cx_oracle -> python-oracledb dependency upgrade #6467 [Dimitris]
    • More useful client docstrings and CLI help messages #363 [Dimitris]
    • Improve handling of errors in Rucio REST API calls #39 [Enrique, Giovanni]
    • Add docs for daemon arguments #499 [Maggie]
    • Update test/test_bin_rucio to use fixtures where applicable #7641 [Maggie]
    • Add link to FTS transfers for rules #517 [Mayank]
    • Record rule error for STUCK rule if rse_expression excludes lock_rse in the meanwhile #7538 [Riccardo]
    • Rework OIDC user authentication #7310 [Anil]
    • Dependencies: deprecate setup.py and move to pyproject.toml #6971 [Riccardo]
    • Improve TEMP_UNAVAILABLE replica handling #7666 [Riccardo]
  • Done
    • Policy Package FAQ & emphasis on important details #494 [Riccardo]
    • Plugins and policy packages: using plugin entry points for discovery? #7572 [Riccardo]
    • Add the possibility to archive metadata for deleted DIDs #5484 [Rob, Cedric]
    • Traces : No gateway for traces #7256 [Maggie]
    • EPIC: Handle DID schemas with / #548 [Mayank]
  • Delayed
• Miscellaneous
  • Handling of / --> Martin will reach out to form a mini task force to progress on this
  • Janusz drafted PR for obsolete_replica_check to move to abacus/rse_counter
    • Needs review, Martin will check
  • vscode dev environment (Mayank)
    • fts container doesn't seem to come up when ran locally
      • Integration tests will not work

15:55 → 16:00 AOB