Technical Coordination Weekly

Europe/Stockholm
Zoom

Zoom

Balazs Konya (Lunds universitet)
Description
Technical coordination group members and invited persons

ZOOM link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/730780003

18 February 2020, 14:05 - 14:50
Present: David, Mattias, Aleksandr, Anders, Maiken, Oxana
Apologies: Balazs

== News

ARC 6.5 turns out to be too verbose because of "Cache cleaning takes too long" messages added to debug an issue but appearing at the INFO level (not DEBUG). OTOH it is only link cleaning, so shouldn't take long. A configurable timeout for triggering such messages would be useful. Code dealing with sessiondir and cache may also need optimisation.
The trend to use supercomputers for everything is picking up, funding agencies seem to prefer this model.
There probably will be an AuthN/Z hackathon in Lund on May 10-11, ARC presence would be nice (if the hackathon happens).
There are still problems with builds on CentOS8 with Mock, it is much easier to install Fedora 31 instead.


== Release

ARC 6.5 is announced, no plans yet for the new release. Controldir re-arrangement is a big and risky change, and though it works for Aleksandr, it still needs to be tested with back-ends (not just fork), so should not be rushed. Maiken will make an issue to track it.


== Bugs

Bug 3841 got tangled, needs to be closed and a clean one should be created.


== A.O.B.

Timing of the NorduGrid conference is not clear yet, may even be postponed to after summer.

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 14:00 14:20
      News 20m
      ARC-related news from various activities
    • 14:20 14:30
      Actions follow-up 10m
      Follow-up on actions defined at the previous meeting
    • 14:30 14:50
      Release status 20m
      Coming release status
    • 14:50 15:20
      Bugs 30m
      New bugs since previous meeting, as well as blockers and critical ones
    • 15:20 15:30
      A.O.B. 10m