At CERN: Federico, Christophe, Philippe, Zoltan, Vladimir, Hamza, Marko, Vladimir, Andre, Wojtek
On Vidyo: Simon, Marcelo, Hideki

Apologies: Andrei, Luisa, Ueda

Follow-up from previous meeting

• lcgBundle: nothing new for the moment, but we said we actually need a new version
  • which should come max on Monday
• Release procedure for webApp updated

Current situation

DIRAC

• v6r19p16 is the last production version
  • just fixes for the pilot, and matching on MP resources
    • tested by GridPP, looks working OK for their need now

WebApp:

• The new release procedure of WebApp part of v6r20 is OK
• Test for moving WebApp to ExtJS6 ongoing, finished
  • Will be for 4.0 version of WebAppDIRAC
  • NOT for DIRAC v6r20, later
  • Extensions would need to be adapted

Pilot:

• Wojtek created a PR for pilot logging
  • still want to add more complete integration tests for both REST and MQ cases, to be used together RESTDirac and our MQ components, so keeping the [WIP] flag for this moment.
• Jenkins tests are now easier to use and can be used for testing the above
• Pilot3 will become optional for v6r20 SiteDirectors, using a flag [Federico]
  • Currently Pilot3 files are uploaded to the web portal
    • there is a security breach here that needs to be fixed. [Zoltan]
  • Needs to update the documentation for that

Externals:

• v6r6p5 created. Used in v6r20, looks OK for now
  • only for SLC6 for now, so that certification can keep going
• For current Externals,  Federico created https://github.com/DIRACGrid/Externals/pull/37 which compile python with pip
  • then old ez_setup and other deprecated stuff has been removed
• What Chris and Marko are doing for the lcgBundle can one day completely replace the Externals too

LCG bundles:

• current production version is v13r0, but 4 or 5 new versions of packages of the Grid middleware are available, so new version of the lcgBundle will come. Also needing new xroot and to re-include LFC support.
  • This was not done but it's now high priority, and needs to come NOW
• Chris and Marko are look into re-compiling everything, starting from the source RPMs provided for RedHat 6. Then, for DIRAC to use it we need to change dirac-install to accept a new flag, e.g. DIRACOS flag that can be used for pointing to this new bundle[Zoltan to help]
  • for the moment only creating one version (no client/server)
  • need to use Jenkins or other CI system

REST:

• Wojtek will create PRs as soon as possible for:
  • choosing among different authentication methods (OAuth and X509)
  • adding the pilots logging interface
  • Delayed because of issues discovered in the DIRAC stomp interface
  • ...and because of code refurbishment
• 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, docs still need to be completed

PyGSI:

• NTR

Documentation

• NTR

DB12:

• NTR

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

• v6r19 series
  • make v6r19p17 before next week
• v6r20 series
  • pre15 out
  • contains all the new features, so now it's only about testing
  • the flag for enabling bulk submission transaction can be removed [Federico] 
  • FTS -> FTS3: we should develop a script to move files from old to new system [Hamza with the help of Chris]
  • we enabled shortly the flag that tells us what JSON can't parse, and got lots of errors
    • we need a first visual evaluation and remove the obvious ones [Chris]

Certification process: 

• v6r20 certification: 
  • Using trello and slack as usual
  • Some updates as usual
  • We need to (re)start all tests with the new lcgBundle 

Weekly development(s) focus

• Glue2 support not in Bdii2CSAgent neither [Andre + Vladimir]
  • https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/3633
    • HTCondorCEs at CERN now not advertised anymore in Glue1 
  • Glue2 seems hard to understand
• ARC CEs
  • still sites need to install patches for DIRAC to understand its content
  • glue2 support still not there, not sure if with that it would work [Vladimir to look into it]
  • [Raja + Andrei + Daniela] to look in details

DIRAC: current PRs and tasks being worked on

• NTR

DIRAC communities roundtable

• GridPP:
  • NTR
• BES: 
  • NTR
• ILC:
  • NTR, just Hamza leaving in one month
• LHCb: 
  • MySQL 5.7 comes with new plans, some problem for certain queries being investigated by DBoD
• INFN:
  • NTR
• DIRAC4EGI:
  • NTR
• Belle2:
  • NTR.

AOB

• New website to be for diracgrid.org: find it at fstagni.web.cern.ch
• Next BiLD-Dev meeting will be held in 2 weeks (March 22)

LHCbDIRAC

• We should right now concentrate on testing v6r20
  • Philippe's MR merged
• at most 4 students this summer: proceeding
  • summer student project accepted, selection started now