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OSG Technology Area Meeting, 16 August 2022

Announcements

  • Mat, TimT out of office next Monday.

Triage Duty

  • This week: Brian
  • Next week: Carl
  • 8 (+2) open FreshDesk tickets
  • 0 (+0) open GGUS ticket

Jira (as of Monday)

# of tickets Δ State
187 -7 Open
38 +6 Selected for Dev
35 +5 In Progress
18 +1 Dev Complete
3 +0 Ready for Testing
0 +0 Ready for Release

OSG Software Team

  • Use COManage IDs in Topology wherever possible!
  • AI (Mat): build stash-origin chart (SOFTWARE-5258)
  • AI (BrianL): set up expiration notification template and workflow; contact COManage developers for assistance if needed
  • AI (Carl): complete custom workflows ticket; meet with BrianL and Mat to discuss use cases for workflows

Discussion

  • The new EPEL release of Apptainer (the replacement for Singularity) requires user namespaces. This will need to be documented for admins.

  • The GlideinWMS developers planning a release candidate for this week. They recently worked with the HTCondor Team to debug an HTCondor-CE issue with dual stack IPv4/IPv6. BrianL will investigate the CE default configuration to see what might have caused that.

  • Expecting a new HTCondor 9.0.16 release today, and a 9.11.0 release on Thursday.

Support Update

  • FIU (Mat) working with FIU to resolve connection issues while attempting to mirror OSG Software repos.

  • FNAL (Carl) worked with Yuijun and Kevin Retzke on Gratia probe changes. Software team work is done for now; at this point Yuijun and Kevin should discuss their requirements.

OSG Release Team

  • Ready for Testing
    • xrootd-monitoring-shoveler 1.1.2
    • HTCondor 9.0.16 (important bug fixes)
    • Upcoming: HTCondor 9.11.0 RC2

Discussion

- Release xrootd-monitoring-shoveler and HTCondor 9.0.16 this week.