Technical coordination group members and invited persons
29 August 2017, 14:10 - 15:07
Present: Aleksandr, Balazs, Maiken, David, Oxana
Apologies: Anders, Mattias
== Next release
Some will like to have Archery preview already before ARC6, for testing. Preparations may take some time, but we're not in hurry anyway. Archery manager with complex dependencies and documentation can wait. It would be nice if Anders can enable the relevant records at nordugrid.org. Decision: next minor release should have Archery clients (both API and monitor).
The next release will be a minor release, since it'll have Archery and possibly Python LRMS, also as a preview. The latter would require changed in arc.conf.reference and validator. Martin will be contacted once back.
There will be some bug fixes, too.
The backwards-incompatible change in memory units should be reverted, but it will mean returning back to a broken EMI-ES system. Or we can change units internally to those which are compatible with broken ones for most used job description. There was no actually bug report; the revision in question is 32670 and is a part of a fix to bug #3666 (disk space also used wrong units). Rolling it back will mean rolling back three commits: 32669, 32670 and 32671 and unfixing bug #3666. A safe solution would be to advise servers that run ARC < 5.3.2 not to turn on EMI-ES, and not revert anything. All agree.
== Bugs
* 3655 - still open, Aleksandr kindly agreed to label it fixed
* 3667, 3673 - 3676 - waiting for Martin
* 3681 - the conflict with Autotest RPC Client (ARC), on Mattias
== Technical meeting
No update from Ljubljana, will know more next week.
== A.O.B.
Builds of restructuting branch are still broken, Martin is yet to fix it. A proposal is to disable relevant test for now.
Maiken created places in CodeRefinery GitLab for LRMS patches:
* https://source.coderefinery.org/nordugrid/arc-patch-collection
* https://source.coderefinery.org/nordugrid/arc-patch-collection/wikis/home