Conference call notes 20180103 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki

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Notes on the 93rd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday January 3rd 2018 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (8):

  • Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
  • Teo Ioannis (CSCS, Switserland)
  • Bart Oldeman (McGill University, Canada)
  • Rafael Alejandro Sarmiento Perez (CSCS, Switserland)
  • Åke Sangren (Umeå University, Sweden)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)

Agenda

  • outlook to EasyBuild v3.5.1
  • 2018a toolchains
    • PRs for foss/2018a and intel/2018a definitions
    • test results (rebuilding *-2017b easyconfigs with */2018a)
    • stricter policy w.r.t. software versions (one per toolchain) to try and increase adoption?
  • Q&A

Notes

Outlook to EasyBuild v3.5.1
2018a toolchains

  • foss/2018a and intel/2018a toolchain definitions

  • test results

  • stricter policy w.r.t. software versions (one per toolchain) to try and increase adoption?

    • should be checked automatically or it won't be enforced at all...
    • in some cases there are good reasons to have multiple versions, so we need a way to bypass the policy
      • flex, HDF5, ...
    • only warn through comments in PR via @boegelbot?
    • stick to one for everything or only for common dependencies?
    • have a way to hard specify that a specific version of a dep is required?
      • currently usually done via a clear comment, good enough?
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