SPI project meeting

Tuesday 14 Oct 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.

================================================== Ana Gaspar + Actions done - Develop a client server following xmlrpc rules - Compile all the external software with gcc 4.3 - + Next actions - Put the client server on producction - - + Problems - - - ================================================== Bertrand Bellenot + Actions done - Installed Qt 4.4.2 for win32_vc71 in afs/external - Installed gccxml 0.9.0_20081002 for win32_vc71 in afs/external - Installed gccxml 0.9.0_20081002 for win32_vc9 in afs/external- ================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress - Savannah: in the last 2 weeks:  . 53 new users, 9 new projects, > 1000 items posted  . help admins to configure their project  . fixed a bug in the markup language handler (displayed only the    first 60 characters of lines marked as 'verbatim') - Hypernews: also a lot of activity  . created 10 new fora  . moved users from CMS or Alice to Atlas HN  . helped users with changed email address, lost password, etc - moved the Savannah and Hypernews 'watchdog' scripts to lxvm0303  and updated the SLS service accordingly. - updated the handling code of the 'Request AFS Space' web form  to use the new lxbuild system. - fixed a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in one of  our dynamic web page. - debugging & improving the script to survey SPI related web pages  (... several thousands!) + Next actions - survey SPI web pages ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - External software - built new gccxml 0.9.0_20081002 for Linux and Darwin - Contacted FIO to investigate why our Xen host (lxbuild116) is that slow. I suggested to have a look whether "hardware optimization" is turned on. No reply yet. - A proposal for tag name unification was sent to the CMT users of LCG/AA software. The proposal is available at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/SPI/TagsUnifyProposal - The afs quota for sw installations has been increased by 300G - Several fixes in LCGCMT in connection with CORAL and COOL interface packages and in connection with the VC9 porting + Next actions - Implement the proposal for tag unification in LCGCMT ==================================================

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob