Rucio Development Meeting

Thursday 6 Dec 2018, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

3196/R-023 (CERN)

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:10 News

• Rucio Coding Camp 2018
  • Thanks for participating!
  • We will definitely plan one for 2019 as well!
• This is the last Development meeting in 2018!
  • Next Development meeting: 10. January 2019 in room 4-S-056
• Rucio 1.18.7 will be build on Monday (10. December)
  • Next patch release: Rucio 1.18.8 to be build on 7. January 2019

15:10 → 15:30 News from the experiments

• ATLAS
• CMS
• DUNE
  • 1.8PB of data taking in 5-6 weeks

15:30 → 15:50 Hot topics

• Rucio release plan 2019

Rucio 2019 Release plan.pdf

• No preference for a specific model
• --> Will go for the 3x model, but maybe shift June and October release by 1 month
• Need to discuss LTS model at a later point

15:50 → 16:20 Developers roundtable

• rse-accounts for SFTP
  • We do not expand it, should try to get rid of it completely.
• Archive support (Overview ticket #1091)
  • Tobias will submit a patch next week which will include the changes for client_extract and checksum checking with archives
• Reaper developments
• Tape support
  • No documentation! :-(
  • Can a different protocol be used for BRINGONLINE than for TRANSFER
    • STAGEIN rule - but sources are not eligible for transfer
    • --> Should be fine to enable the STAGEIN area sources again
  • dCache as transparent cache
    • Need to look into it
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16:20 → 16:30 AOB

• Rucio workshop registration very soon