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OSG Technology Area Meeting, 2 March 2020

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

Announcements

  • TimT OOO this week
  • BrianL OOO Friday and next Monday

Triage Duty

  • This week: Diego
  • Next week: ???
  • 10 (-2) open FreshDesk tickets
  • 1 (+0) open GGUS ticket

JIRA

# of tickets Δ State
159 +6 Open
43 +2 In Progress
2 +4 Ready for Testing
0 +0 Ready for Release

OSG Software Team

  • Did everyone get an email from Freshworks about account migration?
  • OSG 3.5.11/3.4.45
    • AI (Mat): Update Globus packages (SOFTWARE-3991)
    • AI (Diego): Build XRootD plugins for XRootD 5; RC2 expected in the next ~2 weeks (SOFTWARE-3923)
  • Containers
    • Need a volunteer to test the XRootD standalone container (SOFTWARE-3934)
    • Need to enable the XCache data integrity script for CMS and ATLAS XCache
  • Hosted CE
    • Fixed some WN client and host cert/key mounting issues last week
    • AI (Brian): Simplify remote user configuration (SOFTWARE-3960)
  • GridFTP/GSI transition
    • AI (Edgar): Update TPC tests to use config.d configuration; add HTTP/S tests for XRootD standalone (SOFTWARE-3936)
    • AI (Carl): Move OASIS manager login credential information to CILogon (SOFTWARE-3947)
    • AI (Mat): Fix-up email templates and confusing web page for the COManage self-registration process
    • AI (Mat): Review contents of audit log for places where we may want to audit tokens
    • AI (Derek): Demonstrate access to LIGO frame data with SciTokens (waiting on XCache SciTokens integration)

Discussion

  • AI (BrianL): Write tickets for TPC config.d and self-registration improvements
  • UCSD and UNL aren't interested in a standalone XRootD container for the time being
  • XCache SciTokens waiting on XRootD RC2, which is expected this week
  • GlideinWMS 3.6.2 RC expected this week

Support Update

  • Florida (BrianL, Derek): Investigating delays in SAM test job startup
  • FNAL (Marian): hitting issues with IPv6 due to reverse DNS lookups similar to what we saw at UCSD some time ago (possibly fixed in XRootD 5). For now FNL has turned off IPv6 support on the redirectors.
  • Nebraska (Diego): Working with admins to transition Nebraska to using XRootD TPC with UCSD
  • Purdue (Edgar): reinstalled the CMS XCache with all the new redirectors; had documentation requests and notes
  • UConn (Derek): troubleshooting potential issues with yearly summaries

OSG Release Team

3.4.45 Δ Both Δ 3.5.11 Δ Total Δ Status
0 -2 3 -9 11 +9 14 -2 Open
0 -2 2 -3 7 +2 9 -3 In Progress
1 +1 0 -1 4 +4 5 +5 Ready for Testing
0 +0 0 +0 0 +0 0 +0 Ready for Release
1 -3 5 -13 22 +15 28 -1 Total
  • Software
    • Ready for Testing
      • 3.5.11
        • CCTools 7.0.22
        • CVMFS 2.7.1
        • oidc-agent 3.3.1
        • osg-oasis 16-2
        • XCache validation tool
      • Both
        • Nothing yet
      • 3.4.45
        • Singularity 3.5.3
    • Ready for Release
      • 3.5.11
        • Nothing yet
      • Both
        • Nothing yet
      • 3.4.45
        • Nothing yet
  • Data
    • vo-client 100
  • Operations
    • osg-notify smart quotes
  • Contrib
    • Nothing

Discussion

  • AI (BrianL): Contact ET about OSG 3.4 end of regular support dates
  • AI (BrianL): Write weekly ready for testing email
  • AI (BrianL): Prepare for vo-client release Wednesday

OSG Investigations Team

Discussion

None this week