Telcon: 2016 10 06

Attendees

1. Todd Gamblin (LLNL)
2. Peter Scheibel (LLNL)
3. Ben Boeckel (Kitware)
4. Patrick Gartung (Fermi)
5. Mike Collette (LLNL)
6. Elizabeth Fischer (Columbia/NASA GISS)

Bugs fixed

1. Finer-grained locking
2. Issue with mirroring non-parseable URLs

News & Discussion

1. Spack v0.10 release

• I have created a Spack v0.10 project for this release

• Target release date: 2 weeks from now (10/20)

• We'll discuss what issues need to go into a stable release

• Focus is on making existing functionality robust and squashing particularly painful bugs.

• After today I'll cut a release branch that will only introduce fixes to things in the 0.10 project.

• Goal is to have more frequent, focused releases and allow develop to move without disrupting people.

• Package Testing

  • any package build bugs should be added e.g. #1951
  • make testing framework portable and get users to run integration tests
  • make it easier for users to report build bugs.
    • ask to automatically report (#)?
  • add more RPATH checks and automated testing to packages.

1. v0.11 (or 1.0?) will likely happen before Supercomputing.

• Mike suggests making the version higher for SC.
• Todd would like to get a new concretizer in by SC but it likely won't happen - maybe kick it to 1.0 for SC.

1. Patrick Gartung has computing in HEP conference in SF next week

• two posters mentioning Spack
• Todd: is the conference open to drop-ins?
  • Patrick: not sure -- look at CHEP2016

1. Ben: working on Xcode mockup to make Qt on Mac OS X work.

• still a few bugs
• working on Yosemite
• See PR #1832