SPI project meeting

Tuesday 4 Dec 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 - savannah: . several new projects approved + some help to project admins . discussion with Stefan and Erwin Laure concerning the possibility to provide access to a copy of the savannah database filled with gLite Middleware relevant items only. This way they could extract whatever they need with less overheads than going via the xml export file. They are likely to need some help initially to understand the db structure and the savannah conventions. . some request for improvements together with a proposal to help by providing work/manpower was addressed to Pere by Oliver Keeble. Need to understand what they want to do. - hypernews: . created several Atlas HN forums + some administration (renaming forums, etc) . Terry Hung / SLAC has offered to help fixing some pbs/limitations experienced by Atlas and to upgrade to most recent version of HN. - modified the LCGCMT dynamic web pages to display the dependency tree of the various packages versions - wrote a python script to fill the database used to dynamically generate the LCGCMT web pages. This script will be used when a new configuration is released. Its interface to the configuration release script is via a multi-level dictionary of dictionaries. + Next actions - complete the set of LCGCMT dynamic web pages - modify the NB summary to fit on the screen (no horiz scroll) and harmonize it with the LCG config viewer - install on my station (recently upgraded to SLC4) all the packages necessary for the support/development of savannah. ================================================== Bertrand Bellenot + Actions done - Released doxygen 1.5.4 for windows in afs/external - Released gccxml 0.9.0_20071127 for windows in afs/external - Released clhep 2.0.3.2 for windows in afs/external - Released xerces 2.8.0 for windows in afs/external - Invastigated Dawn/David compilation problems on Windows - Released ROOT 5.17.06 for all the supported platforms + Next actions - ROOT production release 5.18.00 + Problems - Dawn & David don't compile on Windows. A patch has been submitted to the original author. ================================================== Ian McLaren + Actions done - Geant4 - Installed geant4.9.1.cand02 in geant4 area for slc4_64. - The clhep 2.0.3.2 installations in the lcg area are OK. - Geant4 testing. + Next actions - Geant4 - Geant4 testing and preparation for release 9.1 next week. + Problems & AOB - Is it possible to have an Intel icc installation for slc4 - in the lcg/external/icc area? ================================================== Piotr Kolet + Actions done - set new versions for dev2 (LCGCMT_53f, GAUDI_v19r6-pre) (as requested by Marco) - ignore CMT Warings on Windows (Gaudi, requested by Marco) - avoid removing Gaudi sources when building more than one platform on the same node (requested by Marco) - this allows the test to finished. - Windows scripts for building CORAL, COOL, POOL, RELAX. - Several configuration changes (POOL tags, dev2 versions, etc) - - enable slc4_ia32_gcc41 on dev, temporary disable slc4_ia32_gcc34 on slot dev1 to save resources. - Links creation for LCGCMT (LCGCMT_54 -> LCGCMT-preview and LCGCMT_53f -> LCGCMT_53-patches) - investigation of cross-platform compiling possibility. - - trying to fix xrootd corss-platform facility. - increase quota on afs for dev slots ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - External s/w packages built for the LCG platforms slc4_ia32_gcc34, slc4_amd64_gcc34, osx104_ia32_gcc401 - doxygen 1.5.4 - gccxml 0.9.0_20071127 - clhep 2.0.3.2 - xerces 2.8.0 - david 1.36a - dawn 3.88a - rebuild pyqt 3.17.3 because it was picking up qt 4 instead of 3 for the build - the qmtest.bat script calling qmtest was changed in order to support LCGCMT and external users who want to setup the environment on their own. - LCG comprehensive review talk was well received - Hypernews: Terry Hung from SLAC is helping with the support for Hypernews, his first actions were the rebuild of the search indexes for the Atlas, CMS and LCG/AA instances, and resolving a problem with posts which were duplicated in case a vcard was attached. - LCGCMT changes - changing the pyqt interface package to fix problems with include pathes - fixing the reflex_dictionary_generator pattern for test dictionaries, the move action for mac osx was missing (needed to comply to ROOT's PluginManager) - A technical student was requested for the SPI project (together with Geant4). Official announcement of outcome of the board is pending. - LCG Configurations - LCG 53f tar balls have been created, they were not done during the post install process (old scripts). We can hopefully soon move to the new integrated scripts from within LCGCMT. - Remove the Geant4 dictionary generation in RELAX for mac and win (no native builds) - Solving a problem in the POOL cvs repository. A tag name was used also as branch name. This name was used for the nightlies. The solution was to introduce a new tag name. - Solving several problems in the nightly builds for the dev slot with the help of many developers. We still have a few tests failing per project and some minor build problems. They will be resolved in the coming days. - Time machine is now supported in the group for backups on mac machines. + Next actions - Check the external packages for possible upgrades in connection with the new LCG configuration - Rebuild the external stack native in slc4_ia32_gcc41, slc4_amd64_gcc41 - LCG 54 release ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob