Rucio Meeting

Thursday 9 Jul 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• 41 "Donkémon" release
  • In feature freeze!
  • RC1 next week
  • Final the week after
  • Retrospective next week
• 42 Roadmap planning on July 23

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
• DUNE
• RUBIN
• DaFab
• ESCAPE
  • Setup synchronization for tokens & groups
    • Get in contact with Giovanni if you have feedback
• ePIC
  • Migrating certificates
    • Trying to use tokens to do the upload
  • have a chat offline to not duplicate too much work (with Martin)
• INFN Datalake
• RI-SCALE
• ETAP / MADDEN
• IHEP
• HEPCCE
  • Globus & Rucio good progress

15:25 → 15:50 MCP for Rucio

Speaker: Dr Giordon Holtsberg Stark (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

Documentation

GitHub Repository

rucio-mcp server

Slides (reveal.js)

15:50 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 1 (Sprint Board)
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• PR review sprint/marathon
  • 39 -> 
• Rucio 41 priority followup
  • Todo
  • In Progress
    • XL: Finalise CLI command structure #8349 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • XL: Feature Flags Subsystem for Page/View Enablement #752 [Mayank]
  • In Review
    • M: Replace some "add" and "update" CLI commands with "set" #8547 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • M: Generate "Configuration parameters" documentation page automatically, to avoid mismatches between documentation and code #325 [Maggie]
  • Done
    • S: Rucio WebUI authentication cookie without HttpOnly flag #8475 [ASHISHTOMER0817, Reviewer: Ben]
    • M: remove auto feature for oidc auth #8318 child of #7310 [Anil]
    • 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]
    • XL: Fix flaky tests #8270 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitris]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`RuleClient`) #8619 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`ConfigClient`) #8612 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: Wrong documentation for `dids/scope/name/files` call #8053 [Dimitris]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`RSEClient`) #8607 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`AccountClient`) #8608 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • M: Inconsistent results and errors when filtering DIDs by `created_at` timestamp #8409 [Dimitris]
    • M: Bump Rucio Python dependencies for the Rucio 41 LTS (Donkémon) release #8640 [Dimitris]
    • XS: Cannot authenticate to account with given credentials [x509 proxy] #98 [Francesc]
    • S: Improve Juptyerlab extension operator guide #768 [Giovanni]
    • 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]
    • XL: Test stability on LTS branches #7964 child of #7667 [Karan, Reviewer: Martin]
    • S: Remove SRM and GridFTP protocols #8497 [Maggie]
    • S: Make loaded CLI options configurable #8494 child of #8349 [Maggie]
    • M: `get_metadata_bulk` ignores `plugin` when `inherit=False` #7323 child of #8011 [Max, Dimitris]
    • XL: [EPIC] UX improvements (Target 22) #621 [Mayank]
  • Delayed
    • XL: Convert RSE availabilities from a boolean to an enum #6660 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • XL: Fixing dependency management #8500 [Ben, Reviewer: Martin]
    • 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: npm_and_yarn dependabot jobs failing #123 [Francesc]
    • L: Token refresh after expiration #73 [Giovanni]
    • L: Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • L: Make scope optional in all API endpoints using scope + name information #8196 [Maggie, Reviewer: Max]
    • M: Change mixed prometheus_client and probe_metric approachs to use PrometheusPusher #129 [Maggie]
    • 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: Replace Env Generator Tool and EnvConfigGateway with Zod Schema-Based Env Validation #753 [Mayank]
    • XL: Permission Management based on the server side Policy #739 [Mayank]
    • XL: Simplify what we run on CI (test suites, OS, Python versions, DB, …) #7965 child of #7667 [Mayank, Reviewer: Ben]
• Other discussion
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB