Conference call notes 20180822 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki

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Notes on the 108th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday August 22nd 2018 (5pm - 6pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

  • Damien Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Victor Holanda (CSCS, Switzerland)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, US)
  • Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, UK)
  • Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

Agenda

EasyBuild v3.7.0

In-place updating of Java

Automated checking of SHA256 checksums in PRs

Document which dependency versions are locked per common toolchain generation?

  • should be done automatically to ensure consistency...
  • via @boegelbot?
    • could react to merged PRs & auto-update documentation in response
    • quite a bit of implementation work to auto-update docs on merged PRs?
  • checking of dependency versions could (also) be added to --check-contrib
    • only for common toolchains (starting with 2018a)
    • download develop of easyconfig repo
    • check whether dependency versions conflict
  • also an issue of missing documentation w.r.t. policy on dependency variants? better error reporting needed in PRs?

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