OSCARS meeting (MADDEN+ETAP)

Tuesday 3 Feb 2026, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

Zoom link

• MADDEN planning document
• Gitlab group

Please provide short status reports on issues assigned to you:

• Lia
• Nikita
• Andres
• Matti

• Hot topics:
  • Prepare setup for xRIDGE (Lia)
  • CVMFS plugin development (Nikita)
  • Full MDC Dataset for ETAP on Louvain and/or PIC RSEs (Andres)
  • Multi-RI implementations:
    •  PR to Rucio (client side), should be included in 39.2 (Matti)
      •  Test it and provide instructions for ETAP people
    • PR to Rucio (server side), merge conflicts fixed, still some formatting issues (Matti)
      • Upgrade both CE and ET Rucio servers with multi-RI implementation and test it.  (Lia, Nikita)

 

• From last week:
  • Test oidc-agent instructions by Andres (anybody?) -> done by Matti, Andres, should be tested by Nikita
  • fixed issue with Andres not being able to write to CE RSE in Turin, still problem with rucio download (Nikita, open issue)
    • then add custom policy package in CE server and remove Andres admin rights
  • once Rucio servers 38 and 39 are deployed, Andres will prepare a new image with the corresponding rucio client
  • conflict between 38 client and rucio-mri from 39 reported by Andres, Matti will check if the mix 38/39 can work
  • open an issue about cleaning up client images on vre dockerhub

 

• Miscellaneous:
  

  • participate in ESCAPE/WLCG Data Challenge in February - meeting with ESCAPE DIOS WG on Friday, December 5th at 16:00 CET
  • join Rucio group of interest on hierarchical file structure: not yet created (Nikita to follow up on this)
  • 2nd OSCARS Annual General Meeting - 11-12 March, 2026 - Seville, Spain https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/37069/overview (maybe Nikita)
  • CHEP abstract submitted
  • follow up with ETAP and OSB about needs for MDC (new joint coordination by EIB-OSB div 10?)
  • WP3 multi-RI metadata queries: Discuss with Paul for HSF cond DB, and with Valentin for Rucio metadata
  • Report on MADDEN at the LVK week (Nikita)

11:00 → 11:20 Discussion

11:20 → 11:40 MADDEN status report

Speakers: Andres Tanasijczuk (Universite catholique de Louvain), Federica Legger, Lia Lavezzi (INFN Torino), Matti Jansson, Nikita Avdeev

11:40 → 12:00 ETAP status report

Speaker: Paul Laycock