SPI project meeting

Tuesday 29 Apr 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.

================================================== Piotr Kolet + Actions done - installing xen environment on lbxuild116 - - ia32 linux on lxbuild116-vm2 - - windows on lxbuild116-vm1 - - preparing small documentation about xen node. - putting new scripts into production on all platforms but Windows - helping Karol with nightlies on lHcB projects. - closing down formalities. ================================================== Bertrand Bellenot + Actions done - Installed Boost 1.35.0/python2.5 for win32_vc71 - Installed gccxml 0.9.0_20080422 for win32_vc71 - Tried to create static Python libs on Windows, and link Python.exe with static libs: failed... - Installed MSVC++9.0 express edition and build tools on the virtual Windows machine + Next actions - Build MSVC++9.0 binaries of Root on the virtual Win machine + Problems - The virtual Windows machine is sometimes very slow... ================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress - Savannah: . approved new projects . deleted a few (old) spams injected in the News (the spam fighting mechanism works only on the bugs, support requests, task, patch and cookbook trackers). . helped Dirk Hoffman to configure his project trackers . helped Zachary Marshall with the various ways of searching/filtering bugs . iterated with a user who did not (properly) authorize Savannah to post to his mailing list - Hypernews: . created new fora . removed a user - made various improvements to the nightlies summary page (loading time, extended display criteria, keeping user preferences, etc) - discussed with Axel and Stefan the content management system ROOT is considering for their own use. It does not seem suited to our requirements. - iterated with several users who created websites and did not respect CERN naming rules. + Next actions - complete the set of LCGCMT dynamic web pages with Stefan AOB - will be absent four days next week ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - LCG Configurations - LCG 54e - moving to a "new" dcache client (see below) - Hardware - lxbuild022 has been re-installed with slc4/ia32 - 4 new build nodes lxbuild11[3-6] have been received and installed by FIO, they are used for nightly builds, development and virtual machines. - lxbuild11[3-5] have been installed the "perfmon kernel" - lxbuild116 has been installed the "xen kernel" - a few lxbuild nodes were suffering from looping tests (POOL, ROOT), developers have been informed - http://cern.ch/spi-service suffered from a denial of service attack. The page was moved to a separate host to isolate it in case of re-occurance. - external software installed for Linux and Mac platforms - gccxml 0.9.0_20080422 - Boost 1.35.0 - static Python 2.5 - fixing problems with dcache - the rpm provided on the web page with binaries for srm and dcap was built agains glibc 2.4 which wasn't compatible with slc4 (glibc 2.3). Instead of installing the combined rpm two separate rpms have been deployed which don't suffer from this problem. The new verison is 1.8.0 (instead of 1.8.0.0) + Next actions - LCG 54f with fixes for POOL and CORAL and updates of externals (Castor, Grid,) - LCGTEST - a project for integration testing of LCG/AA projects (mainly for nightly builds) - Leopard builds (we still have a few problems, especially ROOT builds) - LCG confgiuration web pages finalization + Problems ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob