GOALS for 2026

[belforte]

Picking up from #8879
legend: Qx = milestone for that quarter , Hx = milestone for that half year

Ported over from 2025

• Q2 reboot each schedd every 6 months or so (automatically). schedulers - implement automatic reboot #8651
• H2 use of tokens for talking to CMSWEB Use tokens for crab for backend service-to-service communication #7845 (predicated on CMS TokenTeam progresses)
• Q1 ArgoCD for our K8s applications Shift to ArgoCD + Helm PRs, update crabserver chart, hands pointers. #9188
• H2 use submitted task info in task scheduling use task status information in scheduling #9073
• H1 revisit JobRetry.py policies (more retries, re-eval site list, add cooloff ...) improve resubmission policies #9264

new for 2026

• H1 Prototype AI Chatbot for user support
• H1 Rebuild CRABServer, TW into Alma9 py3.9, bumped to WMCore freeze. port CRAB code to new python 3.13 #8956, Migration to Alma9 with py3.9 on CRABServer & TW #9265
• H2 Final AI Chatbot for user support

always ongoing

• cleanup code source (remove "transients" from past migrations)
• cleanup an update documentation