9 March 2016, 14:10 - 15:30
Present: Balazs, Jon, David, Anders, Aleksandr, Oxana
= News
NorduGrid 2016 conference: registration is open, someone should make an announcement (http://indico.lucas.lu.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=279).
Balazs attended ATLAS software week, learned that people like ARC for the relative simplicitly and not for its features. arccp is very unlikely to win over gfal as data mover.
HTCondor-ARCCE workshop: several sites are contemplating installing ARC; those who start using HPC facilities sometimes want to use ARC-CE with aCT.
David was debugging some transfer issues at NDGF. Some ideas about submitting talks to CHEP (around ARC-HPC interfacing, storage-less sites and such). Balazs will produce a list of past CHEP talks/proceedings.
Oxana was at the GDB, dedicated to traceability and security. Usage of "standard" protocols and tools simplifies life not just of sysadmins but also of hackers; logs are important for traceability (all sorts of logs, incl. job logs). Compatibility with intrusion detection systems might be important in future.
Anders is working with Ulf to host NorduGrid CRLs on an IPv6 server.
= Bugs
* 3533 - Gabor is needed to comment whether archive can have a limited life time; Balazs will contact him
* 3536 - should be linked to the configuration clean-up
* 3538 - no comments
* 3535 - David's request
Two EMI-ES bugs got fixed, David will try it again (he also fixed another bad bug, but wasn't reported, should go into a ChangeLog or a protected bug report).
= Release
A minor release is needed, as mentioned earlier (for performance metrics and ObjectStore support). Jon will announce deadline for the developers/freeze on March 18, and the release possibly on April 1.
= A.O.B.
arc.conf.reference in the new configuration branch has plenty of TODO notes inside, people are welcomed to look through them and provide answers if known. A meeting will be called to work on it, probably on Thursday 17th (Aleksandr, David, Florido, Balazs).
Anders will look into changing the policy of SVN notifications, like e.g. truncating the diff instead of discarding.
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