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