Rucio Meeting

Thursday 17 Sept 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
• ePIC
• DUNE RUBIN
  • Rucio 41 rollout
• HEPCCE
• DaFab
• ESCAPE EOSC
• CERN IT
• INFN
  • Upgraded to Rucio 41 LTS
• RI-SCALE
  • Policy package with OPA (Open Policy Agent connector)
• MADDEN / ETAP
  • Rucio 41 upgrade
• CTAO
  • Rucio 41 upgrade
  • xrootd gridmap config

15:25 → 15:35 Role Based Access Control in Rucio

Speaker: Hugo Jean Roger Demule (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

RBAC in Rucio (Condensed).pdf

15:35 → 15:45 Automated validation of Rucio database evolution (migrations) to prevent production regressions

Speaker: Pedro Saraiva (CERN)

PedroSaraiva_SummerStudentProgramme_Presentation.pdf

15:45 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Rucio 42 priority followup
  • Todo
    • M: Enable upload from the UI #100 [None]
    • XL: Implement CI checks for containers repo #526 [Ben, Reviewer: Mayank]
    • XL: Fixing dependency management #8500 [Ben, Reviewer: Martin]
    • L: Create a design doc for the Subscriptions refactoring #8714 [Cedric]
    • M: Alembic migration pruning for unsupported Rucio versions #8594 [Dimitris]
    • L: Change 3 remaining function-based indices #6248 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Add the possibility to archive metadata for deleted DIDs #5484 child of #8011 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XS: npm_and_yarn dependabot jobs failing #123 [Francesc]
    • L: Plugins and policy packages: using plugin entry points for discovery? #7572 [James, Reviewer: Ben]
    • L: Account usage counters getting out of sync #6464 [Martin, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • M: add_rule with rule_grouping = NONE doesn't correctly respect the space left on the RSE #5845 [Martin]
    • XL: [EPIC] UX improvements (Target 40) #621 [Mayank]
    • L: Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Rohit, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • M: Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Rohit]
  • In Progress
    • S: Update test images to MySQL 8.4 using the new `mysql-native-password` flag #6759 [Dimitris]
    • L: `session` parameter in `*_session` decorated functions is required, but effectively treated as optional #6989 child of #6986 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Add a scanner for DAVS with the same interface as xrootd scanner #24 [Eric]
    • L: Upgrade Globus Protocol and Transfer Tool to use Globus SDK >=3 #8655 [Maggie, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Replace Env Generator Tool and EnvConfigGateway with Zod Schema-Based Env Validation #753 [Mayank]
    • XL: Reduce CI/testing runtimes #8684 [Rohit, Reviewer: Dimitris]
    • XL: VO specific policy package algorithm for RSE token #8584 [Rohit, Reviewer: Martin]
  • In Review
    • M: Move Postgres14 tests to Postgres16 #6997 [Dimitris]
    • M: Do not use regex to split did, use scope extraction method #7519 [James]
    • S: `extract_scope`: should the `scopes` argument be removed? #8188 [James]
    • M: Access "RSEFileAssociation.AccessedAt" from the client #8540 [Maggie]
    • M: Deprecate old CLI interface #8700 [Maggie]
    • M: Investigate replacements for MKDocs #840 [Maggie]
  • Done
    • S: Fix performance issue for `test_overlapping_containers_and_wildcards` #8723 child of #8684 [Dimitris, Rohit]
    • M: Remove QoS Policy functionality #8520 [Maggie]
    • S: Replace "Client().add_distance(...)" parameters dictionary argument with kwarg "distance" #8521 [Maggie]
    • M: Improve runtime for the test `test_upload_with_guid` #8720 child of #8684 [Rohit]
    • S: Improve runtime for the test `test_lifetime_exception` #8740 child of #8684 [Rohit]
    • M: Improve runtime of the test `test_replica_recoverer` #8760 child of #8684 [Rohit]
  • Delayed
• Other discussion
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB