Conference call notes 20170315

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Notes on the 72nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday March 15th 2017 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (xxx):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)

Agenda

• outlook to EasyBuild v3.1.2 (bugfix/update release)
• update on automatic style checking for easyconfig PRs
• IRC vs Slack for #easybuild chat channel
• Q&A

Notes

EasyBuild v3.1.2

• ETA: no later than end of this week

• bug fixes in framework, cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/milestone/45?closed=1

  • really fix problem of superfluous load statements with hierarchical module naming scheme
    • see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2152
  • fix broken packaging support, changes made in EasyBuild v3.1.1 broke the way in which fpm was being called
    • see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2153
  • fixes for framework test suite (cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/2154)

• easyblocks: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/37?closed=1

  • easyblock for QScintilla (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1127)

• minor bug fixes, style fixes, enhancements in existing + a bunch of new easyconfigs, cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/40?closed=1

  • add patch to FFTW 3.3.6 to fix broken MPI Fortran03 interface
  • lots of style fixes to make easyconfigs pass eb --check-style
  • don't use $root since it is not compatible with module files in Lua syntax
  • fix $PYTHONPATH in ROOT easyconfigs
  • new supported software (11): DBG2OLC, disambiguate, fqtrim, GFOLD, LSMS, L_RNA_scaffolder, PileOMeth, psycopg2, QGIS, QJson, QScintilla

• Is there something that people would like to add to 3.1.2?

Automatic style checking for easyconfig PRs

• goal is to soon require that all easyconfigs in repository pass eb --check-style
  • enable checking of easyconfigs style in Travis
  • NO strict requirement in eb itself
• WIP update to documentation @ https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/pull/311
  • see preview @ http://boegel-eb.readthedocs.io/en/easyconfigs_style/Code_style.html#easyconfigs-style-guide
• first need to make sure that all easyconfigs in easybuild-easyconfigs repository pass
  • now >90% done
• --check-style should also check order/grouping of easyconfig parameters
  • cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2165
• Thoughts?

IRC vs Slack for #easybuild

• obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1810
• switch away from IRC to Slack?
• support both channels?
  • OK for Kenneth, who is already using both IRC and Slack anyway