BiLD-Dev

Europe/Zurich
2-R-014 (CERN)

2-R-014

CERN

Federico Stagni (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN)-Unknown-Unknown)
Description
Bi-Weekly "Loyal" DIRAC developers meeting. And, following, the LHCbDIRAC developers meeting.

Bi-weekly DIRAC Development meeting -- 20/06/2019

 

At CERN: Federico, Zoltan, Christophe, Andre', Marko, Anton, Sasha
On Vidyo: Daniela, Marcelo, Ueda, Hideki

Apologies: Andrei, Xiaomei

 

Follow-up from previous meeting

  • GS DOCS: seems dormant...?
  • SiteDirector fix (originally in https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/issues/4014) has been applied to v6r21

DIRAC communities roundtable

  • CLIC:
    • NTR, not moved yet to v6r21
  • LHCb:
    • NTR
  • GridPP:
    • Moving Centos7 servers. (known) issues found using the current lcgBundle for glite software. Re-packaged by just adding a few packages.

Current situation

DIRAC

  • v6r21:
    • v6r21p8 is the last patch release
      • Minor fixes only
  • v6r22-pre3:
    • Tested with certification process, one more round is needed

VM:

  • NTR.

WebApp:

  • Web 4.0 in testing, several fixes done.
  • JSLint can be added for Travis tests [Zoltan]

Pilot3:

  • Added possibility to install DIRAC with --dirac-os option

DIRACOS:

  • LDAP added to master
    • master should be used for all the pre-releases

Documentation

  • NTR

OAuth2:

  • NTR (developers not connected)

DB12:

  • NTR

tornado and other externals

  • NTR

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

  • v6r21 series
    • NTR
  • v6r22 series
    • will create -pre3 today
  • v7r0 series
    • a rel-v7r0 branch can be created
      • what won't be there will go integration (v7r1?)

Certification process

  • dteam VO used for DIRAC certification setup
  • access to certification server box (lbcertifdirac7) granted to who requested it

Weekly development(s) focus

  • DUW outcome: generally positive. Main message: more hands-on and tutorials (2 days)
  • CAs update
    • need to write in the doc what we propose

 

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

  • codecov a bit annoying. Bring patch down to 1% target, or even 0 [Andre']

AOB

All abstracts for CHEP accepted as ORAL presentations

 

 

Next BiLD in 2 weeks from now.

 

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LHCb

  • v9r4 will be based on v6r22
    • most urgent matter is the use of LbEnv+LbPlatformUtils for running applications on containers
    • Stick with (new) lcgBundle also for the server. Chris B is taking care of creating them.
    • Will create pre-release ASAP
    • Targeting July 8 for release.
  • https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/LBCORE-1420 : no progress yet
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