SPI project meeting

Tuesday 19 Feb 2008, 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 - was away six working days - Savannah: . new projects approved . spams were posted by people who registered. By chance they were submitted to the savcern project which means that I got notified and could react quickly. The spams and their authors have been deleted. . following a meeting with Manuel, D. Quarrie and A. Pacheco I will implement an option to leave the original item of a reassignement sequence open until the final item of the chain gets closed. . more iterations with Joachim Flammer (GLite MDW) on the Savannah db structure in general and on the item history in particular (he is developing a statistics program using a copy of the savannah db) - Hypernews: . created new fora . reactivated archived fora + Next actions - implement the requested Savannah modifications for Atlas Offline - 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 ================================================== Piotr Kolet + Actions done - Preparing LCG_Builders to use it in Nightlies (last testing, fixing small issues, tuning) - added conditional "use" for pyCMT - preparing presentation about LCG_Builders - moved apache configuration form lcgapp1 to lcgapp04 - new release slot to test incoming releases - Increase afs quota on dev slot (to 13G per day) ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - Scripts for filling mysql database from a release are prepared, we need to do the final debugging - External software - fastjet 2.3.0 has been rebuilt WITHOUT CGAL - after discussions with the experiments the use of CGAL would have only brought a minor gain and this was the only usage of the library so far. Thus we will re- duce dependencies with this rebuilt - A snapshot of gcc 4.3.0 has been installed in the contrib area - - Nightly builds - Again a disk-full problem on one of the lxbuild nodes on Feb 6. We again reported to problem to FIO and requested a fix. The solution is now, that FIO will provide new build nodes (with bigger disks) per end Feb. - Web server - the lcgapp web server crashed twice on 11 and 12 Feb. Piotr has setup lcgapp04 as a new machine. Today we will do the switch. - LCG configurations - We are currently preparing LCG 54a. The release is expected for Wednesday + Next actions - With the new build nodes we urgently need the possibility to compile ROOT cross architecture, we need to follow up on this - The CASTOR tests in LCGCMT are also run on non provided platforms, the easiest will be run them in a self-written qmtest class. - Investigate the possibilities for a re-launch of the SPI web-pages (unifying wiki, html, etc.) ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob