SPI project meeting

Tuesday 2 Mar 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.

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Yves Perrin
+ Actions done and progress
- Savannah
 . migration postponed from Feb 17th to March 1st due to last
   minute discovery of a bug (present from the origin of
   Savannah but showing only with php5) ... Stefan fixed
   the bug (thanks).
 . service now back to production and (apparently) no problem
   except for background acron jobs transfering backups to AFS
   ... help requested to Veronique
 . five Perl modules (a lot of dependencies not yet resolved
   for quattor installation) + phpmyadmin (not in quattor
   repository) need manual installation to be sorted out
   with Veronique.
 . on request of computer security, the project privacy field
   will be made mandatory with no default to force project
   creators to take responsibility of their choice.

+ Next actions
 . enhance Savannah cookbook pages with more info on setting privacy
 . Javascript changes for unsetting privacy and making a conscious decision at project submission time
 . hot standby
 . automatic registration to Savannah on first login with
   cern-sso credentials (atlas request)
 . project membership associated with e-group membership
   (atlas request)
 . complete mail gateway to post comments to savannah
 . help producing a new Drupal based SFT website


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Ana Gaspar

+ Actions done
- Helped Emil.Obreshkov to build 4suite 1.0.2.
- Finished the installation of the externals stack on macOSX 10.6 for 32bit
    * The platform is already in production and it's working quite well since it was launched
    * I've received some feedback:
        - XercesC
        - Frontier Client: fixed problem with flat namespaces vs two-leve namespaces
- Installed XercesC 3.1.0 for gcc 41 on all the slc5 platforms
- Installed libpng,libpfm, sdl and sdl_ttf libraries for Daniele Kruse
- Fixed problems with the windows nightlies
    * Wrong externals PATH on one vc7 machine
- Added the date in the CORAL windows log files
    *  Maybe do the same for all of the rest projects
- Spotted, finally, the problem with the negative warnings and errors
    - The ignore warnings and errors were duplicated in the configuration.xml file, so there were taken into account twice
- Wrote the presentation for tomorrow's residential meeting

+ Next actions
- Submit paper for VALID 2010 conference, deadline March 10th
   * Still without news from the other conference :(

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Stefan Roiser

+ Actions done

- Added _tkinter.so to Python 2.5.4p2 (cause were missing dev packages)
- Installation of documentation for LCG 58a and 56e (doxygen, opengrok)
- Installation of 58a and 56e on CERNVM volume /opt/sft
- Stripping of gcc compiler in afs (4.3.2) to reduce deployment size
- Fix cx_oracle version for LCG 56e because of changed oracle client + adding test in LCGTEST
- Helping users to move to slc5 deployed version of cernlib
 

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob