Technical Coordination Weekly

Tuesday 20 Mar 2018, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Stockholm

Skype

Balazs Konya (Lunds universitet)

Technical coordination group members and invited persons

20 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:30

Present: Balazs, Maiken, Mattias, Aleksandr, David, Oxana

== News

VOMS: nothing will change, too tedious to make "proper" changes.
Balazs is appointed WLCG Middleware Officer.
CHEP 2019 will be in Adelaide. A localplugin talk was accepted for CHEP 2018. David created a #gitlab channel in NorduGrid slack space with notifications from GitLab.

== GitLab discussion

Another iteration on the proposed workflow:

* The main issue seems to be lack of clear procedures for co-developing new features: the suggestion is to develop them in personal forks, but it makes it less simple to contribute to this development (a developer would have to set another developer's fork as upstream). A solution could be to have a central development branch.
* Another aspect is that Aleksandr prefers to commit to one single branch, leaving it to the release manager to pick what to merge into minor or bugfix releases. This is similar to the SVN model and puts much load onto the release manager (and is error-prone).
* Another point: release 6.0 is special in the sence that it will have 3 branches merged: release, minor and bugfix. In general, it is still unclear in which order are branches merged in different cases (bugfix release, minor release, major release), i.e., how does bugfix to a major propagates to the first minor. 

Action points: Aleksandr writes down his wishlist, Majken rejects it, and writes more detailed instructions.
 

14:00 → 14:20 News

ARC-related news from various activities

14:20 → 14:30 Actions follow-up

Follow-up on actions defined at the previous meeting

14:30 → 14:50 Release status

Coming release status

14:50 → 15:20 Bugs

New bugs since previous meeting, as well as blockers and critical ones

15:20 → 15:30 A.O.B.