SPI project meeting

Tuesday 22 Jul 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 - Savannah:  . helped users with registration / afs / lost password  . approved new projects  . iterated with Manuel Gallas concerning the format of the    open bugs summary reports to be sent automatically to the    Atlas Offline projects admins - Hypernews:  . helped users to migrate from CMS HN to Atlas HN  . created new fora for both Atlas and LCGAA - iterated with people who did not follow CERN naming rules when  creating web sites - modified the LCGCMT dynamic web pages according to Stefan's  suggestions - (temporarily) de-activated the cronjob which analyses the  Savannah rejected mails and notifies the corresponding project  admins (the script generated too many notifications ... to be  studied and fixed) - started to rewrite the Savannah 'browse' code to implement  Kuba's request for more flexibility in filtering on history  and (at the same time) re-structure the code which is  messy/complicated. - did a little bit of group admin in Pere's absence + Next actions - complete the set of LCGCMT dynamic web pages with Stefan - complete Savannah mods for Kuba ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done and progress -- Nightly builds - a new version of the nightly build scripts has been put into production, this version is more generic allowing other parties to use it in their environments. - Boost 1.35 has been tried out in the nightly builds, due to compilation problems we reverted for now back to 1.34.1 leaving the change for later (1.35 is still used in the "preview" slot) -- H/W Infrastructure - Due to the CCC vault refurbishment our webserver has to be replaced once more by a new machine. FIO has proposed to use a virtual machine which is currently being setup. - A refurbishment was done in the printer room. A new rack has been installed. In addition to the current machines the "Multicore WP" server and a new 24 port switch have been installed. A UPS is also in place and will be connected when the appropriate power cords are delivered. - A new tool for source code cross referencing - opengrok - was tried out. It seems to be very promising - fast and with a good search functionality. We are currently in discussion with IT whether this can be run through one of their Tomcat servers. -- S/W - The following LCG configurations have been released - 54g - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SPI/LcgConfiguration54g - 55 - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SPI/LcgConfiguration55 - 55a - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SPI/LcgConfiguration55a - New s/w installations in the external area - ROOT 5.20 ( now installed in the ../app/release/... area !!! ) - HepMC 2.04.00 - frontier_client 2.7.8 - lapack 3.1.1 - blas 20070405 - CMT 20080722 (i.e. repo snapshot - now available in ../lcg/external/... area !!! ) - dcache srm + dcap 1.8.0-4 + Next actions - follow up on opengrok installation possibility (probably not before mid Aug.) - dynamic S/W pages with Yves - port of LCG/AA to VC9

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob