XRootD Developers Meeting

Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 19:00 → 20:00 Europe/Zurich

Andrew Hanushevsky (Stanford University/SLAC), Guilherme Amadio (CERN)

XRootD GitHub

XRootD PoW

XRootD Release Planning

XRootD Website

19:00 → 19:05 FTS/XRootD Workshop Preparation

19:05 → 19:40 Development

Topics

• XRootD Collaboration Meeting on July 10th, at 4pm
  • Use the meeting to report back to stakeholders on our plans (i.e. roadmap to XRootD 6.0)
• Potential topics
  • Project governance
    • How to decide on GitHub organization access and roles, CODEOWNERS file, etc
    • DCO (Developer certification of origin) and CLA (Contributor Licensing Agreement)
      • See also: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-difference and https://developercertificate.org/
  • PoW items are now catalogued in XRootD Evolution project
    • Priorities are not accurate, many items have no priority
  • Evolution of XRootD documentation (see here for more info)
  • ZTN & TLS requirements (can we switch to TLS after kXR_login?)
  • Redirects and tokens appearing in URLs (may need WLCG to step in)
    • Propose to filter sensitive headers from header2cgi (i.e. force clients resubmit tokens)
• For us: Which draft items in work plan should be converted to standard GitHub issues?
• Quality Assurance
  • Coverity: recently got access to https://scan.coverity.com/projects/xrootd-xrootd
  • Memcheck (valgrind), Static Analysis (clang-tidy), and Sanitizer builds under way as well
  • Lots of work to be done to fix reported issues

 

We now have issue templates on GitHub!

The intention is to keep GitHub issues for bugs, and use GitHub discussions and the mailing list for questions.

 

19:05 Issues

GitHub Issues

19:20 Pull Requests

Pull Requests

19:35 Releases

Releases

19:40 → 20:00 A.O.B.