OSG Technology Area Meeting, 3 February 2020

Coordinates: Conference: 971-292-4623, PIN: 57363; https://www.uberconference.com/osgblin
Attending: Brian, Carl, Derek, Diego, Edgar, Marco Mambelli, Mat, TimT

Announcements

• OSG All Hands meeting registration open!
• Moria access is flaky, we're in touch with UW CS Lab

Triage Duty

• This week: Carl
• Next week: Edgar
• 6 (+1) open FreshDesk tickets
• 0 (+0) open GGUS ticket
• Add Lauren and BrianL as watchers on any new sites interested in the OSG

JIRA

# of tickets	Δ	State
149	+2	Open
44	+4	In Progress
3	+2	Ready for Testing
1	+1	Ready for Release

• JIRA ticket reporter didn't fire this week. Numbers updated manually.

OSG Software Team

• OSG 3.5.9/3.4.43
  • AI (Mat): Replace custom accounting group code with HTCondor user maps (SOFTWARE-3885)
  • AI (Diego): Distribute XCache validation tool (SOFTWARE-3976)
  • AI (Diego): Build XRootD 4.11.2 (SOFTWARE-3894)
  • AI (Diego): Build xrootd-rucio-N2N-for-Xcache (SOFTWARE-3923)
• Hosted CE
  • AI (Brian): Simplify remote user configuration (SOFTWARE-3960)
  • AI (Brian): Documentation for OSG Ops
• GridFTP/GSI transition
  • AI (Brian): Review OSG XRootD standalone container (SOFTWARE-3937)
  • AI (Carl): Move OASIS manager login credential information to CILogon (SOFTWARE-3947)
  • AI (Brian): Demonstrate a HTCondor-CE/XRootD reporting to the central collector via SSL (SOFTWARE-3939, SOFTWARE-3940)
• Fill out doc focus doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/buvg5qp5aewh8vxd

Discussion

• XCache validator has a lot of non-packaged RPM dependencies as Python libs. Diego will install the dependencies into a Python virtualenv and determine which libs are needed.
• AI (Carl): register two new GlideinWMS developers in Koji and SVN. Remove Lorena.

Support Update

• Czech Site (Marian): They had some questions about Gratia vs APEL accounting. They may follow-up with other tickets via Freshdesk.
• EIC (Mat): Registered new contacts, waiting on some answers from Jerome
• Geant4 (Marian, Carl): Need to register contacts for their OASIS repo
• Purdue (Derek): Completed site rename and coordination with WLCG: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=144769
• UCSD (Carl): Provided OSG-specific patches for our version of Hadoop
• UFL (Brian, Derek): Issues with Slurm job statuses not updating for short-running (~10min) jobs

OSG Release Team

3.4.43	Δ	Both	Δ	3.5.9	Δ	Total	Δ	Status
1	+0	11	+1	1	+0	13	+1	Open
2	+0	6	+1	3	-1	11	+0	In Progress
1	+1	4	+3	2	+2	7	+6	Ready for Testing
0	+0	1	+1	0	+0	1	+1	Ready for Release
4	+1	22	+6	6	+1	32	+8	Total

• Software
  • Ready for Testing
    • 3.5.9
      • osg-configure 3.1.1
    • Both
      • XCache 1.2.1
      • osg-system-profiler 1.5.0
    • 3.4.43
      • osg-configure 2.5.1
  • Ready for Release
    • 3.5.9
      • Nothing yet
    • Both
      • Nothing yet
    • 3.4.43
      • Nothing yet
• Data
  • Nothing
• Operations
  • Nothing
• Contrib
  • Nothing

Discussion

AI (BrianL): coordinate Frontier Squid testing with Igor and Edgar

OSG Investigations Team

• New scitokens-cpp and xrootd-scitokens.
• GRACC transition to gracc2
• Working on SciTokens + StashCache

Discussion

None this week