The Home of the Developer

Workshops

• dCache Installation Hands-on GridKA School 2014, Karlsruhe
• dCache Hands-on 8th International dCache Workshop
• dCache Hands-on ISGC 2014
• dCache Installation Hands-on GridKA School 2013, Karlsruhe
• dCache Installation Hands-on 2013, Berlin
• dCache Hands-on 2013, Taipei
• dCache Developers Workshop 2012, DESY
• Preparation for Zeuthen
• Göttingen
• Vilnius

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
• InfoProvider notes and plans for the future.
• 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
• ​Previous talks given by members of the team.
• AFS Problems
• Old code or classes to be refactored
• Logging levels when to use them.
• dCache Cloud related information

EMI

• Important Links
• gLite - EMI Migration Guide
• dCache Service Configuration Variables
• Request for Change (RfC) handling and Bug-Mapping
• Metrics
• EMI Release Process
• Testbed - provided by dCache
• Testbed - Testuser certificate renewal
• Security/Authorization requirements (AuthN)
• Howto use EMIR with dCache
• Trouble Shooting
• SRM probes for EMI

Our users

• Sites that are using dCache.
• Documentation-Webpages that are documenting and are answering questions on dCache.
• Various sources of monitoring information.
• Sites planning to migrate their PNFS to Chimera.
• Hera Chimera ​migration plans.
• Monitoring at DESY.
• Various "important" site's gPlazma configuration.

Using SCMs

• working with GitHub.
• Checkout and working with dCache SVN.
• HowTo Git
• Mercurial
• Message format for our SVN commits.
• SubmittingPatches
• Contributing Code
• Getting code into dCache
• How to deploy the Book

Java specific

• Tunning Java GC
• Howto use dtrace with java JavaDtrace
• Using AntWithDebian
• Using Maven and Maven with Eclipse

Virtual machines

• Revert XenCenter VM to snapshot
• XenDomains and their usage

QA process

• Release Process
• gLite Testing
• How to make a release
• ​RT is our bug-tracking software:
  • Ticket States Ticket State Definitions.
  • Tagging tickets with actions.
  • EMI - What to do with EGI/EMI GGUS Tickets?

• 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.
• 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..
• IPv6 Setup
• A list of bugs spotted when watching RAL admins using dCache.
• List of patches that were marked as requiring changes in the Book

Release

• Release procedure (lite).
• New Branch for Book

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.
• Authentication in xrootd
• Current (2012) support for GFD 47 (a.k.a. GridFTP v2).

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.

HSM

• How to setup a HSM Backend How-To

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.
• Using the xrootd backport and plugins.

(see also the Wiki Documentation for users)

Wiki-specific

• Various templates
• Wiki pages, order by when they were last updated.

Building issues

• Building rpms from the dcap src.rpm.

Installing issues

• Issues with installing dCache on Ubuntu 12.04 - 64bit

Information about workshops

• Copenhagen 2010

dCache on a Raspberry Pi

• Running dCache 2.6 on a Raspberry Pi

dCache on Ubuntu 14.04

• Howto install a minimal dCache on Ubuntu 14.04 - 64bit

dCache Docker images

• Docker Images for dCache