NorduGrid technical coordination weekly 2019-12-03 14:00

Participants:
Balázs Kónya
Mattias Ellert
Aleksandr Konstantinov
David Cameron
Anders Wäänänen
Maiken Pedersen

== NEWS

BK: Documentation for migration from EGIIS to Archery in preparation.
http://nordugrid.pages.coderefinery.org/doc/admins/archery/index.html

ME: Built 6.4.1 for Fedora/EPEL/Debian.

AK: Some work on the REST interface.

DC: Want to test xrootd fix.

AW: Published release 6.4.1.

MP: Working on improving the deployment testing in the gitlab CI.

== Release 6.4.1

Some issues reported when updating a running system.
This way of updating has been problematic in the past, but the problems
seem to be fewer in ARC 6. AK says it should work:
"There may be delays in events propagation. But not for few hours."
Issue probably not introduced in 6.4.1.

== Plans for 6.5.0

arcctl in separate package
client improvements

Not planned for this year.

== Bugs

3887    MaxWallTime and MaxCPUTime not propagated to infosys

Needs new optional parameters in queue block

3846    Better error reporting for condor failures

No responsible developer for the condor backend

3891    A-REX crashed due to memory access problems in the cache
3885    A-rex crashed

Some work has been done

== Gitlab issues

#61    Condor submission behaves weird on certain setup

Still relevant? Create BZ?

== Discussion about python backends.
New features have been introduced in the classic backend framework
that have not been propagated to the python based framework.