Telcon: 2016 05 05

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Participants

1. Greg Becker (LLNL)
2. Greg Lee (LLNL)
3. Jim Galarowicz (Krell)
4. Peter Scheibel (LLNL)
5. Robert French (ORNL)
6. Matt Legendre (LLNL)
7. Mike C (LLNL)
8. Elizabeth Fisher (NASA)

News

1. Cray port update (Greg Becker)
2. Update from HEP hackathon (Benedikt Hegner, Jim Amundson, Patrick Gartung, Brett Viren, others?)

• How'd it go?
• High interest -- conversation pushed to next week

1. MPI packages now offer spec['mpi'].mpicc, mpicxx, mpif77, mpif90, etc. #893
2. RPM update (Peter Scheibel)

• Matt Legendre discussed use case at LLNL
• Discussion of how this code could drive other packaging systems

1. Potential Python fetching issues may show up -- we'll be working to ensure that we stay up to date with PyPI.

• https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/438
• Looks like they are including hashes in their filenames to get around eventual consistency issues in S3
• We actually discussed what they're doing a bit w.r.t. #579
• Greg Lee says PyPI has agreed to continue supporting the versioned urls.

1. Intel compiler installation (Greg Lee)

Lots of larger PRs of interest

1. Module customization #744 (Massimiliano Culpo)

• to be merged very soon.

1. Importable Spack module #723
2. Extendable R package 757
3. @citibeth has a number of PRs that should be merged soon (see last week)
4. Potential need for fetch dependencies #902

• Bootstrapping may be the solution rather than a new dependency type
• There are certificate issues with bootstrapping curl. Look to resolve these

1. Sure I'm forgetting some...

Bug-fix

1. Fix updates in config files : #775

WIP

1. Remove global db lock : #866

Discussion

• Discussed documentation of stacked repo features.
  • Matt Legendre will either find or create documentation
  • General reminder that we need to keep spack documentation up to date with our PRs