Conference call notes 20151028

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Notes on the 38th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday October 28th 2015 (5.15pm - 5.45pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (??):

• Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
• Fotis Georgatos (freelancer)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

• update on progress towards EasyBuild 2.4.0
• update on support for eb --extended-dry-run
  • see open pull request https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1388
  • http://boegel-eb.readthedocs.org/en/extended_dry_run/Extended_dry_run.html
• update on support for easyconfigs in YAML syntax (.yeb)
  • http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Writing_yeb_easyconfig_files.html
  • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1407

Notes

EasyBuild v2.4.0

• release will most likely happen (very) shortly before the hackathon in Austin (probably Nov 10th)
• support for --extended-dry-run is about to be merged, awaiting finishing of docs update
  • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1388
  • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/pull/159
• only other major 'blocker' is support for subtoolchain-aware --robot (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1306)
• experimental support for .yeb easyconfigs will be included as well
  • roadmap: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1407
  • http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Writing_yeb_easyconfig_files.html