At CERN: Federico, Christophe, Zoltan, Philippe, Joel, Wojtek, Andre', Marko, Hamza, Xiaomei
On Vidyo: Marcelo, Raja, Milosz, Daniela, Simon

Apologies: Andrei

Follow-up from previous meeting

• FTS3 policy: fine
• autopep8: need to find the proper strategy

Current situation

DIRAC:

• v6r19p7 is the last production version
  • v6r19p6 was buggy, and not properly announced/removed, apologies

WebApp:

• The new release procedure of WebApp has been merged, will be part of v6r20 

Pilot:

• NTR

Externals:

• NTR

LCG bundles:

• v13r0 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:

• Wojtek will create PRs as soon as possible for:
  • choosing among different authentication methods (OAuth and X509)
  • adding the pilots logging interface
• The connection with CS-based authZ will be done later
• Tornado proposes some unit/integration tests which look easy to use, and that can be integrated in Travis or Jenkins. Maybe also for WebApp.  

BOINC:

• NTR

PyGSI:

• NTR

Documentation

• Improved creation of scripts documenttion

DB12:

• NTR

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

• v6r19 series
  • v6r19p8 should be out today
  • deprecated decorator added, can be used already
• v6r20 series
  • pre9 will be out today
  • the changes in REST, once done and merged, will be included in a pre-release, which we can then install on the DIRAC certification machine
  • planned release in January 2018

Certification process: 

• v6r20 certification: 
  • Using trello and slack as usual, not much progress these last 3 weeks
• The lhcb-jenkins server has been retired
  • jenkins-dirac server is OK

Weekly development(s) focus

• RAL is moving from Castor to ECHO. No SRM.
  • DIRAC is not fully ready yet. Mostly operational but with some developments to be done

DIRAC: current PRs and tasks being worked on

• #3554 (Transactional bulk jobs submission). Comment is that jobs that can't be submitted should not be considered as "Failed"
• pyGSI -> M2Crypto: maybe for v6r21
  • Made several tests
  • Removed the legacy proxies part
  • Added a flag to use it or not, based on an environment variable
  • sockets part being added
• dirac-wms vs dirac-admin scripts: time to change the names?
  • Philippe will make a plan for changing names and positions altogether

DIRAC communities roundtable

• ILC: NTR
• LHCb: Moved to v6r19
  • some issues of slowness in jobs submission due to RSS, fixed now
• BES3: still on v6r18, they will move ASAP
  • Using some MP resources but not at production level
• GridPP: v6r19 latest patch
  • Using MP resources successful (some issues setting them up), with Pilot2
  • Trying to use GPU resources, still some work to do

AOB

• Next BiLD-Dev meeting will be held in 2 weeks (December 14)

LHCbDIRAC

• "prod" simlink of LHCbGrid moved to v13r0
  • also updated the documentation
• new jenkins-dirac is used, old jenkins retired
  • Need to make the slaves not visible from outside
  • job logs should be closed 
  • and puppetize the cernVMs
• LHCbDIRAC v9r1 can include only changes to ProductionRequest and be out next week
• LHCbDIRAC v9r2 will include changes for platform selection and require full certification (out next yer)