RoadmapSummary¶

• High priority topics
  • Migration to single-user Factories
    • Maintain or reduce needed operation effort (improvement of Factory scripts)
  • Add support for tokens
    • Use HTCondor token-auth for Glideins authentication
    • Support submission of Glideins to sites using sci-token
    • Authenticate Factory and Frontend using sci-tokens
  • Improve modularity and code quality (especially of Frontend)
    • Move to Python 3
    • Improve code quality
    • Make the code more modular (especially the Frontend)
    • Expand, simplify and automate testing
    • Have a Python 3 version in OSG upcoming by late end of the year
    • Keep supporting Python 2 until OSG 3.4 is supported (probably Spring 2020)
  • Singularity support
    • Singularity invocation via HTCondor
    • Support condor_ssh_to_job for Singularity jobs
    • Allow VO scripts also inside Singularity
  • Factory supporting multiple frontend-like services
    • Improve Decision Engine support
  • Use more of HTCondor features in GWMS
    • Blackhole prevention
    • Singularity invocation via HTCondor
    • Use of tokens (security without x509 certificates)
  • Automatic Factory configuration generation, via CRIC
  • Upgrade Frontend and Factory monitoring
    • Collaborate with UCSD (Edgar) and merge the results in production

• Upcoming Releases
  • GWMS 3.6.1
  • GWMS 3.7

• Tickets
  • Open issues ordered by priority
  • Open issues, per release
  • Open Issues filtered by stakeholder (names are case insensitive)
    • CMS
    • Factory Operations, aka Factory Ops
    • Fermilab
    • FIFE
    • GLOW
    • HEPCloud
    • OSG