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2-R-014 (CERN)
2-R-014
CERN
Description
Bi-Weekly "Loyal" DIRAC developers meeting.
And, following, the LHCbDIRAC developers meeting.
At CERN: Federico, Zoltan, Marko, Andre', Christophe, Xiaomei, Xianghu
On Vidyo: Daniela, Simon, Andrei
Apologies:
Follow-up from previous meeting
- NTR
DIRAC communities roundtable
- CLIC:
- NTR
- LHCb:
- Working on a LHCbDIRAC release still based on v6r20
- Parametric jobs
- Better platform selection
- MP queues
- Working on a LHCbDIRAC release still based on v6r20
- GridPP:
- NTR
- BES:
- NTR, running v6r20pX in production
Current situation
DIRAC
- v6r20p17 out, but not announced: integration tests showed issues that Federico will verify
- tests directory introduced in the tarball for... testing purposes
- Chris to advertise changes for SRM and other protocols
- New "ECHO" StorageElement plugin added
WebApp:
- NTR
Pilot3:
- NTR
DIRACOS:
- Added GIT to the bundle
- Added tests for CC7 and SLC6 and Ubuntu
- doesn't work on Fedora, needs to check
- Few broken links... need to check
- Possible issue: CVMFS and hard links across directories would not work
- only fine inside the same directories
- maybe not a real problem, but something to check
BOINC:
- NTR
Documentation
- website diracgrid.org
- No progress in the last 2 weeks
- Andre' just opened a PR for fixing documentation warnings
- all docstrings fixed
DB12:
- NTR
tornado and other externals
- NTR
Release planning, tests and certification
Release planning:
- v6r20 series
- Only PR in development is the one for TQs matching
- v7r0 series
- Last PRs in the pipeline (dirac-install++ and ProductionSystem) are all ready for merging
- M2Crypto PR awaiting
Certification process:
- v7r0 certification:
- certification instance updated by Zoltan, but web isn't working
Weekly development(s) focus
Directory operations on storage: there's an agreement that they should be declared as deprecated. All directory operations will be "virtual", on the DFC only.
Some agents (e.g. ValidateOutputDataAgent) and ConsistencyInspector should be reviewed in this sense.
DIRAC: current PRs and tasks being worked on, or topics from Google forum
- NTR
AOB
- Next BiLD-Dev meeting will be held in 2 weeks, on a normal day (Thursday 15)
LHCbDIRAC
- v9r3 plan in the wiki
- lcgBundle deployment on CVMFS
- bashrc and QT: issues
- versioning not yet there, discussed a better directory structure
- Separate CS of certification from the one of production
- agree
- start by copying the production one, then remove stuff
- separate resources
- copyright:
- OK to use the LHCb one
- Code of conduct: none
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