Conference call notes 20150527 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki

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Notes on the 30th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday May 26th 2015 (3.00pm - 3.30pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

  • Fotis Georgatos (freelancer)
  • Eric Gregory (JSC, Germany)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

  • easyconfigs merge sprint
  • early outlook to EasyBuild v2.2
  • update on packaging support with FPM

Notes

Easyconfigs merge sprint
  • Wed June 3rd 2015
  • plan is to get as many (already open) easyconfig PRs merged in as feasible
  • focus is on getting rid of backlog
  • 5-6 people have confirmed to join in already
  • large amount of focus will be on bioinformatics related PRs (Fotis, Pablo, Robert, ...)
  • Kenneth will send out detailed overview of people joining in + who's available when and interested in what
Early outlook to EasyBuild v2.2
  • planned:
    • support for using GC3Pie with --job (Kenneth + Riccardo)
    • packaging support with FPM (Robert)
    • subtoolchain-aware robot (WIP by Alan)
  • hopefully getting PRs related to QIIME merged in (Kenneth)
Update on packaging support with FPM
  • functionality is there, needs feedback from interested parties
  • plan is to include support in EasyBuild v2.2 under --experimental
  • preliminary documentation https://rjeschmi-eb-draft.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Creating_binary_packages.html
  • relation to --skip needs to be looked into
  • will probably remain experimental until after hackathon @ TACC (Nov'15)
  • conf call with Robert McLay (TACC) and Vital-T to get early feedback may be worthwhile
Other topics
  • location of patch files being consider? (Eric)
    • next to .eb file
    • next to sources
    • needs some work: patches should also be archived and copied to install dir