1st EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• time: Thu-Fri Aug 16-17 2012, 9am-5pm CET
• location: UGent (Belgium), campus Sterre, building S9, meeting room Aubergine (more info)
• notes: lunch provided on Thursday by HPC-UGent

Attendees

6 expected attendees:

• Stijn Deweirdt (HPC-UGent, developer)
• Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg, developer)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, developer/release manager)
• Cédric Laczny (University of Luxembourg, developer)
• Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, developer)
• Toon Willems (HPC-UGent summer intern, developer)

Agenda

presentations

note: informal presentations, no need to prepare slides

• development timeline
• overview of current open bug/feature requests
• experience report by Fotis and Cédric

discussions

• public bug tracker (GitHub issue tracker?)
• policy for [contributing back](Contributing back) to EasyBuild (feature branches, pull requests, code review, release manager)
• wishlist of Fotis and Cédric
• class naming (eb_ prefix)
• can we benefit in any way from pkgsrc/ports/portage etc?

hacking

• bug fixing
• cleaning up work by Fotis and Cédric
• finish work for v0.9
• new features:
• git-download class for RAxML (see cbench)