The Home of the Developer

Projects and Internals

• dCache community coding style Proposal
• dCache LogFacility and collected LogFacilityTargets targets.
• Support of Multiple Hsm's assigned to different Pools
• The DOE Terapaths Project
• Updating the dCacheBook
• pNFS on OpenSolaris
• InfoProvider notes and plans for the future.
• CacheEception error codes
• XenDomains and their usage
• Planning for workshops
• Installing non trusted pnfs.
• what you need to get started as a developer
• dCache build path configuration in eclipse/your IDE
• Ticket Management

Our users

• Sites that are using dCache.
• Various sources of monitoring information.
• Sites planning to migrate their PNFS to Chimera.
• Hera Chimera migration plans.
• Monitoring at DESY.

Using SCMs

• Checkout and working with dCache SVN.
• HowTo Git
• Mercurial
• Message format for our SVN commits.
• SubmittingPatches
• Contributing Code
• Getting code into dCache.

Java specific

• Tunning Java GC
• Howto use dtrace with java JavaDtrace
• Using AntWithDebian.

QA process

• Release Process
• gLite Testing
• How to make a release
• RT is our bug-tracking software:
  • Tagging tickets with actions.
• Hudson service: provides rolling and on-demand tests. We have unit tests, functional test suite, and static code-analysis:
  • Main page
  • S2 Test Suite against srm-devel/ S2 SRM tests
  • Setup
• Releasing and Testing of dCache by hand before it is released.
• Release procedure (lite).
• Functional Test Suite for dCache.
• CERN certification.
• How to jUnit test.
• How to run dCache with JProbe
• Flavia's live SRM test results:
  • Availability
  • Basic Tests
  • Use Cases
  • Stress Tests
  • Srm Copy
  • S2 tests allowed to fail.
• Our use-cases for Xen service.
• Testing Pnfs Using the NFS test suite modified for us.
• Certification Reports Overview to all certification reports.
• Certification process Overview to all certification with CERN/EGI/Glite/Etics/etc..

Protocols

• The dCap protocol definition
• How to develop simple dcap client tools using libdcap
• GridFTP Checksum Proposal
• GSI message spec, v2 (2004-02-09) original, doc PDF.

Internal Design

SRM

• How to setup the S2 SRM Testsuite
• Flavia's summary of SRM Implementation problems,
• Greig Cowans SRM 2.2 testing pages.
• Information about SRM Space Tokens
• SRM design and performance improvements
• Proposed SRM changes for xrootd.

Authorization

• Proposed changes to gPlazma: gPlazma Issues
• New gPlazma architecture

Info service

• TODO and wishlist

Info-providers

• GLUE in it's glory
• Discussions on the megatable.
• NormalisedAccessZones The NAZ idea for publishing GlueSAs.
• Proposed method for publishing dCache information.
• Information about WLCG GLUE software, including BDII and gstat

Bootloader

* Simplified flowchart illustrating the steps at dCache-bootloading

Proposed new info for users

• Configuring the new info provider.

(see also the Wiki Documentation for users)

Wiki Templates

• Various templates

Building issues

• Building rpms from the dcap src.rpm.

Information about workshops

• Copenhagen 2010