Rucio Meeting

Thursday 2 Apr 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• Rucio 40 release
  • Review & Merging still ongoing
    • Delayed due to peoples availability
  • Aim is to have the RC1 early next week
• April release schedule
  • Apr-07 38.5.5 LTS
  • Apr-08 40.0.0rc1
  • Apr-15 40.0.0
  • Apr-27 40.?
• Meetings
  • Apr-16 Rucio 41 release roadmap planning (Delayed by one week)
  • Apr-23 Rucio 40 Release retrospective (Normally I aim to have the retrospective before the planning, but scheduling made this difficult)

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

• ATLAS
  • Archive monitoring
    • Enabled last month; running mostly smoothly
    • Some incidents observed
      • FTS treats failure-to-poll as failed-to-transfer
• CMS
  • Server incident reported last week
    • Increasing the memory allocation (to 3 GB) fixed the issue
  • Oracle-specific SQLAlchemy issue (RAW vs VARCHAR32) still under investigation
• BelleII
• CERN IT
• ESCAPE
  • An intern will work on role-based scope access for six months
• Fermilab
• DaFab
• CTAO
  • Still waiting for reply on the MONIT issue (related to the Conveyor Receiver)
• MADDEN
  • Planning to create a new daemon to react to new DIDs
    • The flows from the Transmogrifier and the Judge Evaluator has not been designed for this
    • Cédric: maybe a new message should be published to an external message queue and read back?
    • To rediscuss in the presence of Martin

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 2 (Sprint Board) [Ben]
  • No tasks planned
• PR review sprint
  • 39 → 46
• Other discussion
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB