Rucio Meeting

Thursday 21 May 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
• Fermilab DUNE / RUBIN / ...
  • DUNE
    • abaccus-collection-replica daemon issue on dev cluster
    • Taper errors
      • Put to wrong location?
      • Dimitrios suggestion was followed and it worked!
• ePIC
• DaFab
• INFN
• RI-SCALE
• MADDEN / eTap
  • Bugfix for Multi-RI client ported to 39
    • In principle 39 is EOL, but Martin will have a look
• IHEP
• HEP-CCE
  • Finishing up test instance for Rucio+Globus testing
  • Maggie joined the effort!

15:25 → 15:40 Discussion: Issue Management Policy

Speaker: Martin Barisits (CERN)

Rucio Issue Management Policy.pdf

15:40 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 3 (Sprint Board) [Dimitris]
  • Going well!
• PR review sprint/marathon
  • 34 -> 40
  • Goal is to get to 25 :-)
• Rucio 41 priority followup
  • Todo
    • XL: Convert RSE availabilities from a boolean to an enum #6660 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • M: Datasets erased through the Reaper do not produce any messages #8022 [Ben]
    • M: Old WebUI OIDC must not use Host header for authentication flow #8473 [Ben]
    • S: Rucio WebUI authentication cookie without HttpOnly flag #8475 [Ben]
    • L: Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios, Reviewer: Martin]
    • M: Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
    • XL: Rucio support for full-structure metadata #8011 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Configclient`) #513 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Ruleclient`) #529 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: npm_and_yarn dependabot jobs failing #123 [Francesc]
    • XS: Cannot authenticate to account with given credentials [x509 proxy] #98 [Francesc]
    • L: Token refresh after expiration #73 [Giovanni]
    • L: Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • S: Remove SRM and GridFTP protocols #8497 [Maggie]
    • L: Make scope optional in all API endpoints using scope + name information #8196 [Maggie, Reviewer: Max]
    • M: Replace some "add" and "update" CLI commands with "set" #8547 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • L: allow wildcard * on a scope level for list_dids #6070 [Max, Reviewer: Mario]
    • M: Let metadata plugins implement `get_metadata_bulk` #7324 [Max]
    • XL: Permission Management based on the server side Policy #739 [Mayank]
    • XL: Replace Env Generator Tool and EnvConfigGateway with Zod Schema-Based Env Validation #753 [Mayank]
    • XL: Simplify what we run on CI (test suites, OS, Python versions, DB, …) #7965 child of #7667 [Mayank, Reviewer: Ben]
  • In Progress
    • XL: Fixing dependency management #8500 [Ben, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Fix flaky tests #8270 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitris]
    • XL: Finalise CLI command structure #8349 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • XL: [EPIC] UX improvements (Target 22) #621 [Mayank]
    • XL: Feature Flags Subsystem for Page/View Enablement #752 [Mayank]
  • In Review
    • M: remove auto feature for oidc auth #8318 child of #7310 [Anil]
    • XS: Wrong documentation for `dids/scope/name/files` call #8053 [Dimitris]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Rseclient`) #528 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Accountclient`) #509 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • M: Do not use regex to split did, use scope extraction method #7519 [James]
    • M: Schema values overridden in policy package are not picked up unless at top level #7731 [James]
    • M: rucio upload does not check that the user has permission to add DIDs #6058 [James]
    • M: Generate "Configuration parameters" documentation page automatically, to avoid mismatches between documentation and code #325 [Maggie]
    • M: Change mixed prometheus_client and probe_metric approachs to use PrometheusPusher #129 [Maggie]
    • S: Make loaded CLI options configurable #8494 child of #8349 [Maggie]
  • Done
    • S: Improve Juptyerlab extension operator guide #768 [Giovanni]
    • XL: Test stability on LTS branches #7964 child of #7667 [Karan, Reviewer: Martin]
  • Delayed
• Other discussion
  • Reopen PR where changes to the branch have been pushed in the meanwhile not possible
    • Add information to the bot about this [Mayank]

15:55 → 16:00 AOB