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32-SC-22 (Bldg 32)

32-SC-22

Bldg 32

Stefan Roiser (CERN)
Description
The weekly meeting of the Software Process and Infrastructure project of the LCG/AA.
================================================== Bertrand Bellenot + Actions done - Installed cppunit 1.10.2 patch 3 for win32_vc71 - Installed Python win32 extensions (required by QMTest) - Installed QMTest for win32_vc71 - Released Root production release v5.18.00 on all supported platforms. + Problems - problems with QMTest installation on Windows due to Python (as usual)... ================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress - Savannah: . helped project admins with bulk operations on their projects . approved a few new projects. . helped a project admin to create project specific query forms to browse bugs according to his needs. . got a request from Manual Gallas to provide a script that will watch the status of bugs possibly moved across several projects. - Hypernews: . new fora created . mods of two fora (title and category) . help to users who lost their passwords or moved from CMS to Altas - wrote a script to extract from the savannah db all the data related to a given project, put it in a separate db and generate a mysqldump of it for the project to play with (requested by gLite middleware). - gave Stefan a skeleton script to fill the required info in the database used to generate the LCGCMT set of dynamic web pages. + Next actions - script for Manuel - complete installation of Savannah on my development system - complete the set of LCGCMT dynamic web pages with Stefan - modify the NB summary to fit on the screen (no horiz scroll) and harmonize it with the LCG config viewer ================================================== Stefan + Actions done - LCG 54 has been released, more info at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SPI/LcgConfiguration54 - A new script which relies completely on LCGCMT for creation of the tar balls has been developed and deployed. - afs project space has been increased by 100 GB - Nightliy builds - A new mailing list project-lcg-app-nightlies@cern.ch has been setup for announcements and discussions concerning the nightly builds - dev3 slot has been retired because it is not needed anymore - Renewal of the ssl certificate for the Hypernews machines - Requested (again) new disks for the build nodes of LCG/AA - Installation of two additional disks requiested to IT/FIO for a RAID0 - several LCGCMT changes (move genmap pattern from Gaudi to LCGCMT) - gccxml for Leopard, a fix was needed for the osx installation in order ot comply with Leopard, the script to retrieve the compiler info was reporting additional strings which made the inovcation of gccxml fail. - Macphsft02 - a new version of the openafs client has been installed 2.4.7, the machine was quite unstable before especially at high load, and crashing with the openafs client. Now it seems to be more stable. - External software - new version of CppUnit (1.10.2_p3) to suppress gcc41 warnings - frontier_client 2.7.6 has been built - gfal 1.10.6 was missing for amd64, installation requested to and done by GD ==================================================
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    • 15:00 → 15:10
      News 10m
    • 15:10 → 15:40
      Round table 30m
    • 15:40 → 16:00
      Aob 20m