SPI project meeting

Tuesday 3 Apr 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.

================================================== Betrand Bellenot + Actions done - Released ROOT v5.14.00e and v5.15.04 for osx104_ppc_gcc401, slc3_ia32_gcc323, slc3_ia32_gcc323_dbg, slc4_ia32_gcc34, slc4_ia32_gcc34_dbg, slc4_amd64_gcc34, slc4_amd64_gcc34_dbg, win32_vc71_dbg ================================================== Ian McLaren + Actions done and progress - Geant4 - Geant4 testing. - Assisting at the performance testing task force meetings and preparing - suitable old releases. - Meetings to prepare presentations for the Geant4 review. - Cernlib - Making debug versions for slc4_amd64 to trace the hbook problem afflicting - ROOT. + Next actions - Geant4 - Geant4 testing. - Prepare Geant4 8.2.ref03 development releases for - slc3_ia32_gcc323, sol8_CC55 and slc4_amd64_gcc34. + Problems & AOB - Will be away the week after Easter. ================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress (since March 13th) - usual savannah project approval & deletion - reassignment of DQ2 items posted to savcern by mistake - assistance to project admin to configure his project (CVS browsing) - iterated with a few project admins concerning privacy settings of their projects / tracker items - adpated external software (dynamic) page for inclusion in the SPI twiki - adapting the nightly builds summary page (with folding/unfolding sections) for twiki (more difficult because of javascript) - explaining users (F. Luehring) why their IPs are checked against blacklists (only if they worked as anonymous) for spam fighting. - sorted out confusion about 'invisible items' in item lists (was too restrictive display criteria in customized query form) + Next actions - HN training ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - Piotr our new fellow has joined the project. He will concentrate for the time being on improvements of the nightly build system. - Problem with the PluginManager cache in SEAL 1.9.2. This has not been build for the linux non debug platforms. The cache file has been generated in place. - Preparation of LCG 50c. Including COOL 2.1.0. Configuration is done. Announcement is pending (no release notes for COOL 2.1.0 ready) - Preparation of LCG 51. Including bug fixes for ROOT, RELAX, POOL, Rebuilt of COOL because of interface changes in CORAL. Current status, POOL, COOL, CORAL are being built. - Few changes in LCGCMT. - New SSL certificate requested for Savannah web server. - lxbuild022 /build space was full at some stage. Cleanup done. Asked also other users for cleanup. - Request for increase of backed up afs space (swlcg_p) by 50 GB has been requested. Done by IT last Friday. + Next actions - Porting nightly build system to windows (still ongoing). The last bit is the ROOT build. + Problems - ATLAS has requested a rebuilt of the MCGenerators s/w with -fPIC. Request forwarded to Witek ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob