Bi-weekly DIRAC Development meeting -- 12/09/2019

At CERN: Federico, Zoltan, Alexandre, Andre', Christopher, Sasha, Marko
On Vidyo: Andrei, Andrii, Daniela, Simon, Hideki, Ueda, Raja, Wojtek

Apologies: Xiaomei

Follow-up from previous meeting

• v6r17 and v6r19 docs removed from readthedocs

DIRAC communities roundtable

• CLIC:
  • NTR
• LHCb:
  • NTR
• GridPP:
  • Using VMDIRAC for running on Openstack clouds (IC done, configuring others)
  • Using singularity containers inside VM
• Belle2:
  • 2 issues reported on SiteDirector #4262 an #4263
  • still on v6r21
• EGI
  • pressure to use Check-IN ASAP

Current situation

DIRAC

• v6r22:
  • v6r22p9 created
    • for reverting a bug introduced with v6r22p7
• v7r0:
  • a tag for v7r0 created, but not announced. In the meantime:
  • #4244 should be added
  • Issue #4264 should be resolved
  • So, we'll work on fixing the above, and then Andrei will re-tag v7r0 and then we can announce it
    • we'll not go through another hackathon
• v7r1:
  • ready for hackathon next week
  • #4261 will be targeting v7r1
  • Can include #4268 if reviewed

VM:

• Several fixes added
• Should use Pilot3 instead of Pilot2, and use a new version together with DIRAC v7r0

WebApp:

• More fixes merged for v4r0
  • ExtJS6 buggy, and fixed in ExtJS7 (which we can't use)
• 2 more PRs (1 for v4r1 and 1 for v4r2)

Pilot3:

• Pilot logging
  • sorting out the fixes with old versions of python
• Discussion in PR for MultiProcessor handling (not MultiLauchAgent) still going on

DIRACOS:

• NTR

Documentation

• PR #4266 with restructuring of admin doc going on

OAuth2:

• NTR

DB12:

• NTR

tornado and other externals

• PR #4261 (which IIUC should be rebased on v7r1) is a first step in the direction of using tornado and HTTP
• M2Crypto: we can reverse the M2Crypto flag in v7r1, and remove it (and pyGSI) from v7r2 

Release planning, tests and certification

Release planning:

• v6r22 series
  • NTR
• v7r0 series
  • we'll re-tag and then announce it next week
• v7r1 series
  • first hackathon next week
  • we'll only certify that nothing is broken, and we'll consider that all the OAuth2 part is a technology preview
• Integration (and v7r2)
  • Work of the GSoC students merged in integration

Certification process: 

• Next week hackathon of v7r1-preX
  • should use the ES for Job Parameters
  • developers of OAuth2 MUST be there

Weekly development(s) focus

• NTR

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

AOB

Next BiLD in 2 weeks from now

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LHCb

• v9r5:
  • can be based on v7r0, and renamed v10r0
  • list of features can stay