CVMFS coordination meeting 2023 11 13

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Notes for CernVM-FS coordination meeting 2023-11-13

CVMFS workshop 9-11 Sept 2024, probably @ CERN
large interest in "Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC"
- via Zoom on Mon 4 Dec 2023
- 50 seats taken in a matter of hours, now way more seats available
- is time US-friendly?
  - East Coast yes (kind of)
  - could consider repeat event in US friendly time zone
additional package repositories for CVMFS release candidates?
- cvmfs-testing package repo
- access to bleeding edge (nightly builds)
- maybe additional package repo for release candidates for patch releases
  - less rigorous testing for release candidates
  - maybe "pre-release" is a better term for this
  - release candidates is more used for major releases
- more frequent patch releases?
  - takes more time (full test, takes ~24h), so people need to wait longer for the fixed
discussions of problems with hanging CernVM-FS
- very difficult to reproduce, still unclear what the problem is or what triggers it
- only seen with selected repos like ligo.osgstorage.org
- see also https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfs/issues/3375
- CVMFS developers have not been able to "catch" the issue live
next meeting: Mon 11 Dec 2023