Rucio Meeting

Thursday 5 Nov 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Dimitrios Christidis (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

• Thanks for attending the Rucio Workshop
  • Video recordings will be available soon!
• Welcome Daniel
• Rucio 42 code freeze on Monday!

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

• ATLAS
• CMS
• Fermilab
• DaFab
  • Preparing performance testing of new metadata system
• INFN
• RI-SCALE
• MADDEN
• CTAO
  • Issue with data deletion
    • Turned out to be a firewall issue blocking outgoing connections
    • Discovered an issue that RSE protocol priorities cannot be updated to null (#8861)
• IHEP
• CERN IT
• DUNE
  • Latest version of FTS4 should support tokens with CILogon

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Rucio 42 priority followup
  • Todo
    • XL: Implement CI checks for containers repo #526 [Ben, Reviewer: Mayank]
    • L: Create a design doc for the Subscriptions refactoring #8714 [Cedric]
    • XS: npm_and_yarn dependabot jobs failing #123 [Francesc]
    • 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]
  • In Progress
    • XL: Fixing dependency management #8500 [Ben, Reviewer: Martin]
    • S: Update test images to MySQL 8.4 using the new `mysql-native-password` flag #6759 [Dimitris]
    • S: Warn once when a session decorator creates a session implicitly #8816 child of #8810 [Dimitris]
    • XL: Add a scanner for DAVS with the same interface as xrootd scanner #24 [Eric]
    • 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]
    • XL: VO specific policy package algorithm for RSE token #8584 [Rohit, Reviewer: Martin]
  • In Review
    • M: Enable upload from the UI #100 [None]
    • M: Move Postgres14 tests to Postgres16 #6997 [Dimitris]
    • S: Add tests for the `db_session` context manager #8811 child of #8810 [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]
      • May turn out more complicated that originally thought; needs discussion
    • M: Access "RSEFileAssociation.AccessedAt" from the client #8540 [Maggie]
    • L: Upgrade Globus Protocol and Transfer Tool to use Globus SDK >=3 #8655 [Maggie, Reviewer: Martin]
    • M: Deprecate old CLI interface #8700 [Maggie]
    • XL: Replace Env Generator Tool and EnvConfigGateway with Zod Schema-Based Env Validation #753 [Mayank]
    • XL: Reduce CI/testing runtimes #8684 [Rohit, Reviewer: Dimitris]
  • 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]
    • M: Investigate replacements for MKDocs #840 [Maggie]
  • Delayed
    • XL: Add the possibility to archive metadata for deleted DIDs #5484 child of #8011 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • L: Change 3 remaining function-based indices #6248 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • M: Alembic migration pruning for unsupported Rucio versions #8594 [Dimitris]
    • XL: `session` parameter in `*_session` decorated functions is required, but effectively treated as optional #6989 child of #6986 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Session decorator migration (continuation) - Phase 0: foundations #8810 child of #6989 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • L: Plugins and policy packages: using plugin entry points for discovery? #7572 [James, Reviewer: Ben]
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• Misc
  • OpenData-related issues: some changes requiring a major release:
    • Fetch is_opendata via existing endpoints #7901
    • Add is_opendata column to DIDs #8838
    • Remove ON DELETE CASCADE from OpenData foreign keys #8840

15:55 → 16:00 AOB