SPI project meeting

Tuesday 27 Mar 2007, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

32-SC-22 (Bldg 32)

Stefan Roiser (CERN)

The weekly meeting of the Software Process and Infrastructure project of the LCG/AA.

================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress (since March 13th) - MAPS interview - fixed bug reported by J. Flammer (gLite) and related to browsing tracker items with 'advanced' criteria. I am now testing the fix. - worked on a SPI PPT presentation template (not finalized yet) - on request of CMS, deleted several projects now merged into the CMSSW project. - in preparation for the planned HyperNews training: . went through a couple of documents recommended by Traudl . requested an HN account (not created & no reply yet) - send a mail and iterated with a few project admins concerning savannah privacy issues and 'harvesting' by search engines (point raised by Tim Smith at C5) - reassigned a few items posted to savcern by mistake - deleted a wrong project registration - investigating why a user who changed his AFS password and who can log to lxplus does not succeed to log into savannah anymore - send email to a couple of project admins who should fix wrong email addresses / allow savannah to post to their project mailing lists + Next actions - certificate to be renewed for savannah server ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - Nightly builds - windows port - setup new machine pcphsft37 for the windows nightly builds Currently it is possible to produce CMT based projects. Execept for the interaction with sh/cygwin. There we will need a more complete cygwin installation. Currently this is the ROOT/linux environment. - Windows on demand service is currently retired. We can resurrect it if needed. - Problem with lxbuild056, it was swapping too much, after reboot fine again - Better usage of CPU time on linux build nodes. The slots are now executed in parallel. - IT patches for compilers and libstdc++ deployed to lxbuild nodes, no problems found - New slot "gaudi-pre" introduced for Gaudi pre-release testing. - Memory upgrade and new lxbuild node requested to IT - LCG 50b released. - Presentation in AA about ideas for external s/w re-organisation. Followups planned. - Meeting with Blackforest Grid representatives and Apple concerning ports of LCG s/w to mac osx. - AFS - Increase of afs space by 50 GB requested for backed up space. + Next actions - Prepare entrance of new fellow to SPI team next Monday - Finish nightly ports to windows - Certificate renewal for lcgapp machines together with Andreas & Yves ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob