At CERN: Federico, Zoltan, Christophe, Andre', Vladimir, Raja
On Vidyo: Hideki, Daniela, Simon, Andrei, Marcelo

Apologies: Wojciech

Follow-up from previous meeting

• Found FD leak and fixed in v6r20p25

DIRAC communities roundtable

• CLIC:
  • NTR
• LHCb:
  • NTR
• GridPP:
  • NTR
• Belle2:
  • Still running very old v6r17
    • going to upgrade soon (early next year) to v6r20

Current situation

DIRAC

• v6r20p25 latest production release
  • Fixes for Tags matching (today's focus)
  • Fix FDs leak
  • Variable $DIRAC_DEPRECATED_FAIL can be added to CI tests of extensions

WebApp:

• v3r1 (for v6r20):
  •  added possibility to specify a personalized welcome page
• v4r0 PRs all merged. Some issues with deploy should be fixed with latest fixes

Pilot3:

• Wojtek (by mail):
• alpha prototype for server for pilots logging:
  1. Tornado checks if certificate DN is on a list of authorized DNs
  2. if yes it receives a  message via Tornado REST API and pass it to a stomp producer which sends it to a MQ
  What is still not finished is the synchronization with DIRAC.

DIRACOS:

• Some devel libraries put back
• added MySQL client
• DIRACOS v1r0 should be ready, tag soon

Documentation

• website diracgrid.org
  • No progress in the last 2 weeks

BOINC:

• NTR

DB12:

• NTR

tornado and other externals

• Simon made a PR on Chris repository concerning M2Crypto, still to be evaluated

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

• v6r20 series
  • NTR
• v7r0 series
  • Last PRs all merged
  • Should install on DIRAC certification with:
    • DIRAC v7r0-preX
    • DIRACOS  v1r0
    • WebApp 4.0
    • releases.cfg should be modified accordingly
    • need to see where's the DB!
  • bashrc will need to be re-done, so a fresh installation is needed
    • Instructions should go to https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/wiki/DIRAC-v7r0
  • All Jenkins tests should be updated

Certification process: 

• NTR

Weekly development(s) focus

• Tags and MultiProcessor jobs
  • Added some fixes for the use of Tag. The use case is for MultiProcessor jobs but the fixes are totally generic
  • Discussion points to an "institutionalization" of how to do multiprocessing
    • e.g. the "MultiProcessor" tag should be "hidden", or maybe automatically created
    • the users should not need to know which tags to set (so maybe change the API, e.g. add a "setMultiProcessor()"?)
    • The BDII2CSAgent may also need to be updated to see if tags could be added
  • Also added some explanation within the documentation
    • should be changed to "how to use tags" in a generic way
    • the use cases in there are real

DIRAC: current PRs and tasks being worked on, or topics from Google forum

• Pilot: need to check if PYTHONPATH is set or not, do NOT pick it up
  • in this respect, let's not change the bashrc created by dirac-install

AOB

• Next BiLD-Dev meeting will be held in 5 weeks (17 January first meeting of the year)

LHCbDIRAC

• v9r3 and v9r4 plan in the wiki
• CVMFS installation of lcgBundle:
  • need to remove the setting of the PYTHONPATH
  • we need instructions to be added so that everyone can release
  • all tasks in https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/LBCORE-1410
• v9r4 plan in the wiki
  • One more release based on v6r20 with many LHCbDIRAC things