At CERN: Federico, Christophe, Zoltan, Philippe, Joel, Milosz, Wojtek, Hamza
On Vidyo: Andrew, Hideki, Ueda, Marcelo, Xiaomei, Andrei

Apologies: Marko, Andre

Follow-up from previous meeting

• (Also items from last Fridays' meeting on Development strategy)
• Zoltan will take care of the final implementation of a dirac-install-plus script, but some pre-design is necessary
• Deprecated decorator: ask Simon?
• CODEOWNERS file may be expanded a bit

Current situation

DIRAC:

• v6r19p2 is the last production version
  • Just fixes

WebApp:

• NTR.
• Andrei would like to discuss the changes Zoltan proposed on deployment - out of this meeting 

Pilot:

• NTR
• We can introduce Pilot3 as optional from the SiteDirectors from next version (v6r20 even?)
• All new PRs should be targeted to devel branch, then a quick Jenkins test will be run before merging it back to master branch

Externals:

• NTR
• Asked about moving to python 2.7.14: no rush, we can keep in sync with LHCb core software 

LCG bundles:

• Version v13r0 looks OK, and DIRAC v6r19 depends from that
  • This version includes python packages like pyparsing and futures, which should be anyway in the externals. To verify
• still not moved its "development" to GitHub. This would also answer the recurrent question of the content of each release

REST:

• NTR, but Chris said he will make a PR for fixing it

BOINC:

• NTR

PyGSI:

• NTR

Documentation

• NTR

DB12:

• Andrew added file used by all VOs. We should make a pip (wheel) package and release it, then import it in DIRAC 

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

• v6r17 series
  • NTR
• v6r19 series
  • v6r19p3 should be out ASAP
    • It will fix the loading of modules in the extension
• v6r20 series
  • pre3 is out, pre4 should be out ASAP
  • PilotsLogging showed some issues that should be now solved
    • anyway verified a "full chain"
  • FTS3 should be fixed with the proposed PR, but new fixes should be done in the future

Certification process: 

• v6r20 certification is ongoing: 
  • Using trello and slack as usual
  • Also ILC people in
• The lhcb-jenkins server needs to be retired soon, we need to find a solution ASAP, will be announced at the BiLD

Weekly development(s) focus

• NTR

DIRAC: current PRs and tasks being worked on

• pyGSI -> M2Crypto: maybe for v6r21
  • still lacking the sockets part
• CLI of DFC will be changed to avoid confusion [Andrei]
• dirac-wms vs dirac-admin scripts: time to change the names?

DIRAC communities roundtable

• ILC: NTR
• Belle2: NTR
• BES3: NTR

AOB

• formatting with autopep8: looks OK but slightly aggressive
• Decided to held the DUW 2018 starting May 22nd, in Lyon
  • Will be confirmed later
• Next BiLD-Dev meeting will be held in 2 weeks (November 9)

LHCbDIRAC

• Not much progress: waiting for new DIRAC v6r19 patch
  • Need to wait a bit longer for LHCbDIRAC v9r0 release
• LHCbGrid v9r0 needs to be done, but need first to create "prod" symlink
• new jenkins-dirac is being prepared
• QT4 -> QT5? no Progress, and no real urgency