SPI project meeting

Tuesday 16 Feb 2010, 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 and in progress - Installed Frontier-Client 2.7.13 - Installed Boost 1.42.0 - Added threads to ROOT make script depending on the configuration of the machine, before this was done by hand - Installed SQLite 3.6.22 - Installed all the external stack on the mac 10.6 machine for 64 bits - Started the installation of the externals on mac 10.6 for 32 bits, projects installed so far: - Python,Pyxml,bjam,boost,blas,bz2lib,cgal,Qt,zlib,cppunit,cmake,clhep,oracle (symlink) - cx_oracle,dawn,dcache_client,expat,HepMC,HepPPDT,ktjet,lapack,mysql,mysql_python,mysqlpp,processing - Change the way the log files are parsed to prevent projects from having negative number of warnings, or errors. + Next actions - Possibility of create one script to check every day that the build area is cleaned and the (a)crontab tasks are scheduled as expected, i.e. no changes for rebuilding slots during the day. Sometimes one of these tasks fails and screws up the nightlies results. - VALID 2010 || August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France -> Conference - Residential Meeting on 3th March - Next week we'll know if the paper submitted to VIDAS 10 is accepted or rejected. ================================================== Yves Perrin + Actions done and progress - Savannah  . fixed the issues reported by selinux on new savannah server  . had to install five perl modules manually (via cpan) since    solving the dependencies/versions pbs using quattor was    too complicated (having no rpm, these modules don't get    deleted by quattor ... OK for now ... to be solved with    Veronique on lcgapp06)  . request from IT (Stefan Lueders) to encourage project    admins to make their projects/items private for security    reasons (... mail sent to admins + highlighting this issue    in the project registration forms)  . request from Atlas to:      - allow direct login (without registration or with        automatic registration) for people having CERN-SSO        credentials ... should not be difficult (I'll look        after the migration)      - automatic subscription to projects for members of        given e-groups associated with these projects        (allowing those projects to become private)        ... more difficult ... to be discussed + Next actions  . migration of Savannah to new server tomorrow  . complete mail gateway to post comments to savannah  . help producing a new Drupal based SFT website  . work with Stefan on Savannah support ================================================== Bertrand Bellenot + Actions done - released ROOT v5.26.00b for all the supported platforms - released ROOT v5.22.00h for all supported platforms (but Windows) - installed XercesC for win32_vc71 and i686-winxp-vc9-opt - solved a problem of non-relocatable Qt binaries on Windows  by adding a qt.conf file in the bin directory with this syntax:  [Paths]  Prefix = //afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/qt/4.6.0/i686-winxp-vc9-opt ================================================== Stefan Roiser + Actions done - new gcc "max" installation used for nightly builds to move to newer versions of the gcc compiler in smaller chunks - gcc 4.3.2 installation stripped in as. This reduces the installation size by 50 % - Build of LCG Configurations 58a and 56e - Setup of the Drupal instances for PH/SFT and AA projects. This is using the CERNVM infrastructure for the apache installation plus lxbuild nodes for the database installations. Instances are available and ready for use.

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob