Experience with Rucio in the wider HEP community

Managing the data of scientific projects is an increasingly complicated challenge, which was usually met by developing experiment-specific solutions. However, the ever-growing data rates and requirements of even small experiments make this approach very difficult, if not prohibitive. In recent years the scientific data management system Rucio has evolved into a successful open-source project, now being used by many scientific communities and organisations. Rucio is incorporating the contributions and expertise of many scientific projects, offering common features useful to a diverse research community. This article describes the recent experiences in operating Rucio as well as contributions to the project by ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, LDMX, Folding@Home, and STFC.